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A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe : the life of Jakab Harsanyi Nagy /

"In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a Moldavian vo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kármán, Gábor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Colección:History of Oriental studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The beginnings of an ecclesiastical career
  • In the service of the prince
  • Years of turmoil
  • The court councillor of the Great Elector
  • The bureaucrat and the intellectual
  • Harsanyi's changing image of the Turks
  • Instead of a conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Known copies of the colloquia
  • Appendix 2: A glossary of place names from the eastern half of Europe.