Projekt: Tobias TeutenbergInhalte: Viviana Costagliola [VC]; Francesco Montuori [FM]; Aleksander Musiał [AM]; Oleksandra Osadcha [OO]; Dimitri Ozerkov [DO]; Seraina Renz [SR]; Tobias Teutenberg [TT]; Antonino Tranchina [AT]Editing: Gita Rajan, Meagane Elsie ZurfluhKoordination und Redaktion: Tobias Teutenberg; Oleksandra OsadchaRealisierung Web: Alexander Drummer, Hanna Sophie StegemannDigitalisierung der Rara: Anna Wilkens, Paola FilatroDLIB: Klaus Werner Besonderer Dank gilt …
Adelung, Friedrich von: Kritisch-literärische Übersicht der Reisenden in Rußland bis 1700, deren Berichte bekannt sind [1864], 2 vols., Amsterdam 1960. Bausinger, Hermann, Klaus Beyrer and Gottfried Korff (eds.): Reisekultur. Von der Pilgerfahrt zum modernen Tourismus, München 1991. Bideaux, Michel (ed.): Européens en voyage (1500–1800). Un anthologie, Paris 2012. Blendinger, Friedrich: „Aus dem Leben des Schulmeisters und …
In the 16th century, the politically tense situation in Eastern Europe drew several important diplomats to areas belonging to present-day Ukraine. Such journeys were made possible not least by the growing number of itineraries to this region, of which Jörg Gail’s (1520-28–1584) Reißbüchlin is one of the earliest examples. Sigmund von Herberstein (1486–1566), for instance, …
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Johann Beckmann (ed.): Litteratur der älteren Reisebeschreibungen. Nachrichten von ihren Verfassern, von ihren Inhalten, von ihren Ausgaben und Übersetzungen; nebst eingestreuten Anmerkungen über mancherley gelehrte Gegenstände, 8 vols., Göttingen: Röver 1807–1810, vol. 1 (1807) Signature: Ff 44-4070/1 raro IV Figures: Pp. 165-171 In his book, published in 1807, Beckmann offers a comprehensive review of past …
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During the late Middle Ages, several European travelers would cross the territories of present-day Ukraine to reach East Asia – chiefly China. The travelogs and maps handed down to us are precious sources to understand Western Europeans’ conception of those territories and the ethnic groups living therein. Much of what was known in the past …
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Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia. Ex Ponto, ed. Arthur Leslie Wheeler [The Loeb Classical Library 151], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and London: William Heinemann Ltd 1959 Signature: Zo-OVI 1361-5240/c Figures: Frontispiece; Contents; p. 177, 178 Following Emperor Augustus’s (63 BC–AD 14) edict in 8 AD, Ovid was exiled from Rome to Sarmatian Tomis (Constanța, Romania) …
Ovid’s (43 BC–AD 17) involuntary journey into exile gave posterity the most prominent literary description of the Black Sea region in antiquity since Herodotus‘(c. 484–c. 425 BC) Histories. Without ever having been there, Ovid also mentions Crimea (cf. Tristia, IV, 4), which had been a part of the ancient Greek world before coming under Roman influence during …
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