Miracles, Marvels, and the Plague in the Czech-Written Travelogue by Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564-1621)
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Miracles, Marvels, and the Plague in the Czech-Written Travelogue by Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564-1621)
Original language description
The expansion of letter-print in the course of the 16th century resulted in widening the intellectual horizon of the educated strata of the Bohemian society. The printed publications included translations of foreign works devoted to geography, botany and other natural sciences, as well as original local writings. Information from cosmographic literature was thus mainly accompanied by printed books of travels portraying the experiences of the Bohemian adventurers who would set out to the lands of the Middle East. Although the motivation of their travels was not primarily that of natural history, the accounts also provided testimonies about marvelous natural substances known for their medical use. The aim of the presented essay is to show how printed literature (from the fields of geography, medicine and botany, and books of travels) helped form the traditional discourse on the natural Marvels of the East in the Bohemian environment during the early modern times.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
ISBN
978-3-11-059503-1
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
464-481
Number of pages of the book
704
Publisher name
Walter de Gruyter
Place of publication
Boston - Berlin
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