The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. On the Way to the “(Un)Known”? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues: Introduction 1
4. I Close Readings
5. Comparative Perspectives on the “Orient” and Kurdistan in Early Modern Ottoman and British Travelogues 29
6. “Prokesch and Goethe teach traveling like nobody else”: Anton Prokesch’s Travel Account of the Holy Land (1831) 47
7. A Reluctant Observer Between Two Empires? The Travels of the Botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia (1865 and 1866–1869) 69
8. The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin’s Hajj Travelogue in its Historical Context 91
9. Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense? 113
10. II Intertextuality and Intermediality
11. Representations of the Tomb of Christ in Works Written, Designed, and Commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben 129
12. Travelogues as Raw Material of Political Knowledge: The Case of the “Oriental” States in the Renger Series (1707–1716) 147
13. Inherited or Witnessed? The Construction of “Otherness” in the Correspondence and Memoirs of Pavel Levashov (c. 1719–1820) 163
14. Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion Encounters in French Travelogues and Other Representations of the Nineteenth Century 181
15. III Discourses
16. Perceptions of the “Unknown”? Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 207
17. “The Barbarousnesse of Turkes and Time”: Discourses of Travel and History in Seventeenth-century Eastern Travelogues 225
18. The “Orient” in Europe? Crimea in Western Travelogues from the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 247
19. “The West of the Orient”: The Depiction of the Ottoman Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues 273
20. IV Gendered Spaces
21. The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century) 295
22. Effeminate Rulers, Brave Soldiers? “Foreign” Masculinities in Selected Travelogues of Habsburg Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire 317
23. Keeping One’s Composure: Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall’s Travel Accounts and Memoirs 337
24. V Distant Readings and Digital History
25. The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from Nineteenth-Century Travelogues 365
26. German-Language Travelogues on the “Orient” and the Importance of the Time and Place of Printing, 1500–1876 385
27. Index 407
28. List of Authors 419
29. Erratum 421