Civil and Corrupt Asia Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten

Name: Civil and Corrupt Asia Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten
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ISBN: 9780226847009

ISBN-10: 0226847004

ISBN-13: 9780226847009

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ernst van den Boogaart

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Jan Huygen van Linschoten was a Dutchman who in 1596 wrote the famous Itinerario, an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsular, with engravings and captions. This work reproduces these engravings and captions together with extensive analysis.

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 0.97" wide x 1.04" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Ernst van den Boogaartstudied history at Brandeis University and the University of Amsterdam. He writes mainly about the Dutch expansion in the Atlantic and has curated exhibitions on the Dutch in Brazil and on the Dutch discovery of Australia.



Foreword


Introduction


The Credibility of the Curious Traveller


The Icones 'Drawn from Life'?


The Icones as a Depiction of the Hierarchy of Civility in Asia


The Icones as a Series of Instructive and Edifying Images


Some Characteristics of This Instructive and Edifying Series


Did Karel van Mander Devise the Icones?


Notes


Bibliography


Icones Habitus Gestusque Indorum ac Lusitanorum: The plates with a translation of the Latin texts


Index