An Englishman in-between Two Worlds: Robert Bargrave’s Travel through East-Central Europe, 1652-1653

• Authors: Anna Kalinowska

Title variants

An Englishman in-between Two Worlds: Robert Bargrave’s Travel through East-Central Europe, 1652-1653

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The article discusses a journey of a young Englishman Robert Bargrave (1628-1661), who in the early 1650s travelled from Constantinople to England. The travel diary recording this journey reflects Bargrave’s keen interest in the customs, everyday life and languages as well as natural conditions and economy of the places he visited and shows that he tried to place it in a wider context. As a result, closer analysis of this text gives us an excellent opportunity to examine the picture of East -Central Europe as seen by a mid-seventeenth century Englishman and the way he perceived it in relation to both the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe.

Keywords

EN

East -Central Europe; England; travels; Bargrave Robert

PL

Europa Środkowo-wschodnia; Anglia; podróże; Robert Bargrave

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Historyczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4 (244)
• Pages: 45-54

Dates

published

2021-06-01

Contributors

author

Anna Kalinowska

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/SH.61.2018.04.03