TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geoga,Margaret
AU  - Steele,John
TI  - The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800 
T2  - Intersections
SN  - 9789004426245
AV  - CB411 
U1  - 940.2/53 23/eng/20211206
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Civilization
KW  -  Middle Eastern influences
KW  - East and West
KW  - Middle Easterners
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Europe
KW  - Middle Eastern influences
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Middle East
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective, asking how early modern artists and scholars interpreted ancient Middle Eastern civilizations-such as Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia-and how their interpretations were shaped by early modern contexts and concerns. The volume's chapters cross disciplinary boundaries in their explorations of art, philosophy, science, and literature, as well as geographical boundaries, spanning from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America. Contributors include Elisa Boeri, Mark Darlow, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Florian Ebeling, Margaret Geoga, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Andrea L. Middleton, Julia Prest, Felipe Rojas Silva, Maryam Sanjabi, Michael Seymour, John Steele, and Daniel Stolzenberg
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004426245
ER  -