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Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues

dc.contributor.authorMatei-Chesnoiu, Monica
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T13:07:35Z
dc.date.available2022-12-16T13:07:35Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-14
dc.identifier.issn2083-8530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/44704
dc.description.abstractThis essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania. I examine travelogues and geography texts describing these Eastern European territories written by Marco Polo (1579), Abraham Ortelius (1601; 1608), Nicolas de Nicolay (1585), Johannes Boemus (1611), Pierre d’Avity (1615), Francisco Guicciardini (1595), George Abbot (1599), Uberto Foglietta (1600), William Biddulph (1609), Richard Hakluyt (1599-1600), Fynes Moryson (1617), and Sir Henry Blount (1636), published in England in the period 1579-1636. The essay also offers brief incursions into the representations of these geographic spaces in a number of Shakespearean plays, such as The Merchant of Venice and Othello, as well as in Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare and Wilkins. I argue that these Eastern European locations configure an erratic spatiality that conflates ancient place names with early modern ones, as they reconstruct a space-time continuum that is neither real nor totally imaginary. These territories represent real-and-fictional locations, shaping an ever-changing world of spatial networks reconstructed out of fragments of cultural geographic and ethnographic data. The travel and geographic narratives are marked by a particular kind of literariness, suggesting dissension, confusion, and political uncertainty to the early modern English imagination.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMulticultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance;40en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectearly modern English geographyen
dc.subject'The Merchant of Venice'en
dc.subject'Othello'en
dc.subject'Pericles'en
dc.subjectShakespeareen
dc.subjecttraveloguesen
dc.titleEpitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Traveloguesen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number151-163
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationOvidius University of Constanta, Romaniaen
dc.identifier.eissn2300-7605
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dc.contributor.authorEmailmchesnoiu@yahoo.com
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-8530.25.10
dc.relation.volume25


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