LEADER 03805nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910955494703321 005 20240416154517.0 010 $a9780674071681 010 $a0674071689 010 $a9780674067363 010 $a0674067363 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067363 035 $a(CKB)2670000000273691 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437910 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755379 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11423503 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755379 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730199 035 $a(PQKB)10031074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301148 035 $a(DE-B1597)177965 035 $a(OCoLC)1041188534 035 $a(OCoLC)815288202 035 $a(OCoLC)840438994 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067363 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614097 035 $a(OCoLC)923118653 035 $a(Perlego)1148268 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000273691 100 $a20120420d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCourtly encounters $etranslating courtliness and violence in early modern Eurasia /$fSanjay Subrahmanyam 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 312 p. )$cill., maps 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 0 $a9780674067059 311 0 $a0674067053 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps and Illustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1 Courtly Insults --$t2 Courtly Martyrdom --$t3 Courtly Representations --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aCross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these interactions, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on the worlds of early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Both individual agents and objects such as texts and paintings helped mediate encounters between courts, which possessed rules and conventions that required decipherment and translation, whether in words or in pictures. Sanjay Subrahmanyam gives special attention to the depiction of South Asian empires in European visual representations, finding a complex history of cultural exchange: the Mughal paintings that influenced Rembrandt and other seventeenth-century Dutch painters had themselves been earlier influenced by Dutch naturalism. Courtly Encounters provides a rich array of images from Europe, the Islamic world, India, and Southeast Asia as aids for understanding the reciprocal nature of cross-cultural exchanges. It also looks closely at how insults and strategic use of martyrdom figured in courtly encounters. As he sifts through the historical record, Subrahmanyam finds little evidence for the cultural incommensurability many ethnohistorians have insisted on. Most often, he discovers negotiated ways of understanding one another that led to mutual improvisation, borrowing, and eventually change. 606 $aCourts and courtiers 607 $aEurasia$xCourt and courtiers 607 $aEurasia$xSocial conditions 607 $aEurasia$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aCourts and courtiers. 676 $a950 700 $aSubrahmanyam$b Sanjay$0619173 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955494703321 996 $aCourtly encounters$94356409 997 $aUNINA