Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World

Gábor Gelléri is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University Rachel Willie is Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University

Introduction: travel and conflict Part 1: Language, translation and assimilation 1. Babel as a source of conflict: a case study of two discovery narratives 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: the roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci’s Journals 3. "Strange accidents": navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia Part 2: Travel, religion and the violence of the road 4. Arming the Alps through art: saints, knights and bandits on the early modern road 5. Between hermits and heretics: Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent 6. The wars in Europe and the journeying play: Thomas Drue’s The Duchess Of Suffolk (1624) Part 3: War, diplomacy and dissimulation 7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century 8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the narrativity of conflict 9. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant: Henry Blount’s adaptations in Ottoman lands Part 4: The art of travel and imaginary journeys 10. Ars apodemica gendered: female advice on travel 11. Travel, utopia, and conflict: patterns of irony in early modern utopian narratives 12. Lunar travel and lunacy: reading conflict in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon