The Persian Mirror : Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0190884797
ISBN-13
9780190884796
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 14th, 2020
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
European historyMiddle Eastern history
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This exploration of France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century uses diplomatic sources, fiction and images to describe how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. It revises our notions of orientalism and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
The Persian Mirror explores France''s preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu''s Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador''s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
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