Readership: Scholars and general readers of the history of eastern influences on the west, oriental printing and orientalist scholarship, travel and diplomacy, cartography and costume.
Alastair Hamilton, Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas, Leiden University
"An excellent work of reference ... scholarly and finely written text ... a sumptous production." - Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
"Alastair Hamilton, Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Leiden, has steeped himself in the Latin literature of Orientalism that was produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and his studies of early modern Orientalism, including this one, deserve to be taken very seriously indeed. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age is a beautifully produced and richly illustrated book." - Robert Irwin, Times Literary Supplement
1: The Commercial Metropolis of the World 2: Pilgrims and Merchants 3: The Barbary Coast 4: Maps and Panoramas 5: Costumes and Customs 6: Early Travel Accounts 7: The Scholar Traveller 8: The Fruits of Diplomacy 9: The Entourage of Gabriel d'Aramon 10: Habsburg Envoys 11: Guillaume Postel 12: Postel and Islam 13: Arab Science in Europe 14: The Antwerp Polyglot Bible 15: Benito Arias Montano 16: The Spread of Syriac 17: Andreas Masius 18: Franciscus Raphelengius and his Manuscripts 19: From South to North 20: Arabic Typography and Philology 21: The Triumph of the Dutch 22: Anthologies of Travel Literature 23: An End or a Change? Notes Catalogue List Bibliography Index
