Travel and travelogues Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

A critical presentation and review of Corinne Jouanno's classic monograph on the "Alexander Romance", which has been translated into Greek by my colleague Marina Loukaki. I highlight the various parts which have been combined to make up... more

2025, Kjønn i isen: Fragmenter til ei ny polarhistorie

This chapter of a Nordic book, adding new gendered perspectives on polar history, is written in Swedish. Med utgångspunkt i souvenirer från polarexpeditioner och andra laddade föremål i museisamlingar, vid Nordiska museet och... more

2025

The Greek Alexander Romance, probably created in the late Hellenistic age but known from a long series of successive versions which reach well into Byzantine times, has been pieced together from materials of various earlier writings about... more

2025

Tras el inesperado y prematuro fallecimiento de Catchpole, esta nota de advertencia, junto con la documentación adjunta, supuestamente escrita por un tal Daniel Mortimer, pasó a manos del Sr. Catchpole. Con el fin de que los ingresos derivados de la publicación de esta documentación aumenten el valor del patrimonio de la persona antes mencionada y, por lo tanto, contribuyan al pago de ciertas obligaciones financieras contraídas en el Hipódromo de Ascot, además de las acumuladas en el... Las palabras que acabo de citar no fueron escritas por un dentista desconsolado, sino por el autor de un himno muy conocido. Las palabras que expresan una profunda preocupación por los aspectos negativos de la existencia suelen transmitir un mensaje de consuelo. Muchas de las narraciones, diálogos y poemas de este libro podrían parecer centrarse en temas de tragedia y lamentación, pero incluso la elegía más oscura puede prometer consuelo. Escribo el 26 de marzo de 2016, un año que ha traído consigo numerosos presagios amenazantes que despiertan temores de un apocalipsis inminente. Y si este llega a ocurrir, ¿existe aún la esperanza de preparar el camino para una Nueva Jerusalén? Conozco a Daniel Mortimer desde que ambos éramos alumnos del St. Hugh's College, cerca de Glastonbury. Fuimos juntos a Oxford, él a estudiar inglés, yo a historia y filosofía. Siempre me pareció un bicho raro, incluso de niño, y tengo entendido que recibió terapia psiquiátrica durante su época en Oxford. Sin embargo, fue solo al conocerlo después de su viaje a Estados Unidos en el otoño de 1975 que comencé a tener serias dudas sobre su estado de salud mental. Poco antes de su desaparición, hace unos meses, me confió ciertos documentos, entre ellos el siguiente relato de sus experiencias en Estados Unidos. Deduzco TRADUCCIÓN Memorándum: Angela, espera, estoy un poco abrumada ahora, ocúpate de ello más tarde. ADJUNTO De los documentos de Daniel Mortimer depositados en las instalaciones de Algernon Catchpole y posteriormente adjuntos a la propiedad del Sr. Catchpole tras investigaciones exhaustivas, aunque lamentablemente infructuosas, sobre el paradero actual de Daniel Mortimer. Cabalgó conquistando y para conquistar a un Señor del tiempo, emperador de este reino. Su corcel era tan pálido, su dardo era mortal y fuerte la mano que sostenía su vara de hierro. Entre los muros de esa oscura torre, sus cautivos claman por la libertad y la luz, y quien bebió demasiado de su vino tinto debe cabalgar como una pesadilla hasta el fondo del TRADUCCIÓN lo más benigno, sí, cálido y soleado". Los golpes que recibía el avión no eran motivo de risa y mi oración era totalmente sincera. Apenas pronuncié el nombre de Ezequías cuando una extraña sensación de calma me invadió. Poco después cesó la turbulencia y continuamos nuestro vuelo a Boston sin la menor sacudida ni vibración. Mis maletas y equipaje acababan de pasar por la aduana y estaba buscando un lugar para sentarme en la sala de espera cuando escuché que alguien llamaba mi nombre: ¡Hola, Danny! Deja que te prepare las maletas. El coche está afuera. "¡Hola, Pete!", respondí. "Me alegra volver a verte. Deben de haber pasado tres años desde que tú y tu familia nos visitaron en tu viaje a Gran Bretaña. ¿Cómo están todos? Espero que bien." ¡Claro que sí! Todos están en casa deseando verte, y eso también aplica a Drácula y Frankenstein. "¿En serio?", dije con total franqueza. "¡Claro que sí! Están todos esperando allí". Mientras atravesábamos el túnel que conectaba el aeropuerto con el pueblo, Pete me preguntó por el vuelo. No se impresionó mucho cuando le conté el peligro mortal que corrí. Habiendo sido piloto de bombardero en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos, se inclinó a descartar mi descripción de un vuelo accidentado como la comprensible exageración de un pasajero civil que nunca había visto "acción real". No te importa la turbulencia cuando los proyectiles antiaéreos estallan por todas partes. En mi primera misión, ¡caramba!, ¿tenía miedo? ¡No servía de nada llorar por mamá! Aunque pronto me acostumbré. Al final te vuelves fatalista. Ya sabes, la bala con el nombre de alguien, y todo eso. Era demasiado joven para ver mucho del enfrentamiento japonés, pero viví bastante del infierno coreano. Echemos un vistazo al centro de Boston. Les mostraré los lugares de interés. Recordaba vagamente de mis lecciones de historia que Boston fue el lugar donde comenzó la Revolución estadounidense. Tenemos un programa intenso preparado para ti, muchacho: Lexington, Concord, Cape Cod, donde desembarcaron los Padres Peregrinos, Cambridge y Harvard. Uno de los chicos o yo estaremos libres para llevarte a la ciudad y enseñarte los alrededores. ¿Ves esa línea roja de allí? -Pude ver una línea roja continua en la acera cercana-. Va desde la Casa del Estado de allí -ese edificio con cúpula dorada-y llega hasta la casa de Paul Revere, año... aún más TRADUCCIÓN

2025, Bulgarların Gözünden İstanbul

Çalışmamız, üç adet seyahatnameyi ve Halil İnalcık’ın Tanzimat ve Bulgar Meselesi isimli doktora tezini temel almıştır. Bulgarlar, on dokuzuncu yüzyılın başlarında milletleşme sürecine girmişlerdir. On sekizinci yüzyılın sonlarına doğru başlayan göç dalgası, süreç içerisinde daha da güçlenme imkanı bulmuştur. Nitekim çeşitli göç nedenlerinden dolayı Bulgarlar, başta İstanbul olmak üzere, diğer çevre şehirler ve ülkelere yerleşmişlerdir. İzlerini İnalcık’ın eserinden sürdüğümüz bu hadiseler hakkında, söz konusu seyahatnamelerde de bilgiler verilmektedir. Bizim bu çalışmadaki temel hedefimiz, İstanbul’a ister göç etmek zorunda kalan ister keyfi olarak giden Bulgarların, buradaki gözlemlerini toplumsal, siyasal ve ekonomik açılardan ele alarak incelemektir. Böylece Bulgarların yaşadıkları topraklardan neden göç etmek zorunda kaldıkları, Türklere ve imparatorluk içerisindeki diğer etnik kimliklere nasıl bir gözle baktıkları gibi meseleler hakkında yorum yapabilme ve değerlendirmede bulunabilme fırsatı elde edilecektir.

2025, Qom University of Medical …

Methods: Twenty male athletes who signed an informed consent form were randomly divided in to two equal groups. Their blood samples were drawn at rest, immediately after an exhaustive exercise session, immediately after 15 minutes active... more

2025, Itinerario

This article deals with the French botanist Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Menonville who in 1777 went to Oaxaca (Mexico) in search of cochineal. Although cochineal was one of the Spanish Empire's bestkept secrets, he managed to go there, acquire knowledge about its cultivation from local planters, and smuggle the insects on cacti to Saint-Domingue, where he successfully raised them. His voyage is, thus, a paradigmatic case that illustrates how botanical knowledge and objects from local Indigenous farmers were transferred into the networks of European science. The analysis of how the botanist managed to gain access to a space and knowledge that was actually closed to him is embedded within a broader contextualization: starting with the examination of its main source, Voyage à Guaxaca, the article reconstructs the scientific and economic discourse that led Thiéry de Menonville to undertake his voyage. It concludes with contemporaries' evaluation of Thiéry de Menonville's transfer of knowledge about cochineal and its cultivation and the impact that his successful mission had on comparable endeavors.

2025, Entangled Religions: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Premodern Mediterranean Through Literary and Folk Sources

Contrary to traditional perceptions, in the late Middle Ages numerous contacts developed between countries north of the Alps, especially the Holy Roman Empire, and the Mediterranean. Economic and political historians have already confirmed the true extent of exchanges; and art historians have added valuable insights as to the many links of communication. To deepen our understanding of this phenomenon, the present paper addresses the evidence of literary history. Fictional or factual narratives do not necessarily provide hard facts but shed relevant light on a broad concept about the foreign worlds (mentality) whereto especially knights and pilgrims were traveling. We can identify numerous poets who talked explicitly about their visits to the Mediterranean or who have their protagonists travel widely both all over Europe and the neighboring countries. With this evidence in hand, we can proceed to reevaluate late medieval culture as having been much more international if not even global than previously assumed. As much as the Alps appeared to be a significant geographical barrier, the Mediterranean hinterlands were certainly an intimate part of this significant contact zone where East and West met.

2025

This article analyses representations of captivity in the first published account of forced mobility in Central Asia, Filipp Efremov’s account ‘The Nine Years’ Wandering’ (1784), which tells of his forced stay in Bukhara and his journey via South-Asian countries to St. Petersburg (1774–1782). By focussing on the text’s different editions and by comparing the representations of captivity in these different versions, this article will focus on the following aspects: What representations of captivity in terms of self-identification and asymmetrical social relations are contained in these texts? How did the agendas behind the processes of text production and publication affect the structure and content of the narratives? In this way, this article contributes to the study of narrative contextualisation, patterns of self-representation, narrative agency and their modification within particular genres over the course of the publication history in order to identify new aspects of narrated dependency as a rarely considered aspect of life writing.

2025

Grandeur et de ´cadence des Patagons? De la Critical review a `L'Esprit des journaux (1767-1780) MURIEL COLLART et DANIEL DROIXHE A Pol-Pierre Gossiaux, qui me re ´ve ´la voici quarante ans l'oeuvre de Corneille de Pauw (DD)

2025, Доклады XXXI Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Россия и Восток. К 100-летию политических и культурных связей новейшего времени / Proceedings of the XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa. Russia and the E...

В статье рассмотрены проблемы и методология идентификации бионимов, засвидетельствованных в текстах на шумерском и аккадском языках, на примере наименований черепах и голубей. Для выявления компонентов значения бионимов могут привлекаться... more

2025, Nikephoros

Während der römischen Kaiserzeit blühten in den griechischen Städten sowohl die Agone als auch die Gladiatorenkämpfe, was literarische Quellen, vor allem aber zahlreiche Inschriften, Reliefs und Gebäude bezeugen. In manchen Quellen werden Athleten und Gladiatoren in einem Atemzug genannt, und es ist in der Forschung deutlich gezeigt worden, dass die Gladiatoren das Vokabular sowie ikonographische und literarische Motive der Athleten übernahmen. In diesem Aufsatz soll ein umgekehrter Einfluss diskutiert werden: In der Kaiserzeit lassen sich verschiedene Veränderungen der gymnischen Agone beobachten, die möglicherweise vom Vorbild der Gladiatorenkämpfe angestoßen worden sein könnten. Untersucht werden die Teilnahme von Sklaven, ehrenvolle Unentschieden und summarische Erfolgsbilanzen.

2025, Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

An exploration of the recurring female voices and cultural identities of the late antique Greek rewritings of the Alexander Romance.

2025

This book analyses imagined histories that appeared in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century around the monuments of archaeology and architecture, as well as the stories told by historical sources on the Crimea. The narratives under analysis, which current research would define as inauthentic or even phantastic, possess one important feature of working with emotions, and therefore enjoyed confidence from the Crimean travellers and visitant travellers. The latter often filled the stories with vivid details; later on, persons of letters and painters used the said plots as sources of inspirations for their original prose, poetry, and drawings. In their own turn, Crimean Tatars and Karaites apprehended the travellers’ tales as a part of their own history. The migrants to the Crimea, the Greeks of the Aegean or the people from the mainland provinces of Russia, searched for support in Orthodox faith, and therefore interpreted some of the local monuments as the holy relics related to the deeds of the early Christians. In result, the “Crimean legends” characterise the complete intellectual interaction of the persons representing various peoples, epochs, and cultures, uncover the features of mentality of the persons of the past, and also show a very specific instance of the integration of the Crimea into Russia.

2025

Bosanskohercegovačka historija kroz vizuru alumnija Odsjeka za historiju“ / "The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina through the eyes of alumni of the History Department. Univerzitet u Sarajevu - Filozofski faulted / University of Sarajevo... more

2025

Building on historical texts, concepts of ethnography and surrealism, and citing examples from the Spanish film-maker Luis Buñuel from the 1940s and early 1950s, this paper demonstrates how the Icelandic/Canadian film-maker Guy Maddin turns a critical eye on western Icelandic iconography by reworking historical film styles and the Icelandic mythos in his first feature film Tales from the Gimli Hospital. The film is not primarily an aesthetic effort; rather, it takes a critical stance towards culture and tradition. Guy Maddin is a self-taught Canadian/West Icelandic film-maker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who has been making films -shorts, features, installations -since the middle of the 1990s. He is one of Canada's most celebrated film-makers, possibly best known for his award-winning films Dracula -Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), Archangel (1990) and The Heart of the World (2000). His films have been described as a marriage between pastiche and parody, calling to mind a bricolage of pre-/early sound film styles and avantgarde aesthetics (Beard 2010: 26). They are generally antiquated in their aesthetic approach, exemplified by deliberately scratchy non-sync sound, simple shot assembly, archaic film techniques (such as vignettes, wipes, fade-ins and iris shots), low-key lighting, double exposures -that is, a whole repertoire of techniques that modern-day feature film-makers have turned their backs on. The performance of Maddin's actors is frequently in the vein of 1920s-era melodrama, and his sets are deliberately non-realistic. His films are invariably tributes to early cinema, including early avant-garde cinema, fused with encrypted self-portraits, and genre revivals, made with an "amateur obsessiveness" and usually on "scrimp-and-save budgets" (Romney 2015). Maddin's idiosyncratic cinematic effects, already perceptible in his first film, the short The Dead Father (1985), can be said to have come together in Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988); a 16 mm black-and-white film that runs to just over an hour, amalgamating the semantics of his Icelandic cultural heritage and West Icelandic ethnography in a way demonstratively embedded in surreal sensibilities and archaic film practices.

2025, Listy filologické

The article attempts to shed light on the function of the bizarre martyrdom
episode at the beginning of Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit,
which, due to its indecency, causes embarrassment among scholars. It, at
first glance, seems to be a superfluous and somewhat awkward attempt to make the narrative about the founder of the Egyptian eremitic movement more entertaining. Considering how much space the author devotes to this anecdote in this fairly short text and in what detail he describes the unusual sexual torture, it is apparent that this is not just a titillating interlude to amuse the reader. The “torture” by the woman therefore plays a much more important role in the structure of the text. In this scene, Jerome reverses the standard martyrological pattern of the female martyr being subjected to sexual torture by male persecutors, in an attempt to show the ethos of the new Eastern ascetic movements of which he became an enthusiastic advocate. The entire scene can thus be seen as an allegorical parable about the inner spiritual struggle of an adept at the ascetic life with sexual temptation. This can only be overcome at the cost of physical suffering, which the ascetic inflicts on himself by the strict suppression of his own bodily desires, and which can match the torture that the martyrs have to undergo. He thus makes a connection between martyrdom and the ascetic life, placing both forms of extraordinary faith on the same level. The fact that this struggle with carnal temptation is not thematized in the following narrative of the first hermit is the result of a specific narrative strategy based on the use of the isolated fragments of the story between which there are large narrative gaps. The link, however, between the seemingly unrelated opening martyrdom episode and the main narrative of Paul’s eremitic career may not only be the symbolic meaning of the scene as a parable about the struggle with carnal temptation, but also the word meretrix (harlot) itself, which also appears in the main body of the text in the phrase civitas meretrix (harlot city), which Saint Anthony uses to refer to Alexandria. The martyr’s radical break with his female tormentor may prefigure the hermit’s equally uncompromising break with depraved urban civilization and all its worldly temptations. The strange martyrdom episode can thus also be interpreted as a hidden message about the nature of radical eremitic asceticism.

2025, Czas kultury

This article looks back at the origins of Ireland’s geopolitical division into southern and northern parts, focusing first on key events of the second decade and early third decade of the 20th century in the British Isles. The border established by the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 began to define the geopolitical reality of the entire island in 1922, although its recognition by the Irish side came only as a result of the Good Friday Agreements in 1998. The main object of reflection is not so much the geopolitical fait accompli in the form of the borderline that now separates
the European Union from the United Kingdom, but the Irish border as a socio-cultural phenomenon. This border is defined both through attitudes and reactions to the division on the part of borderlanders (border communities) and by tourists and researchers interested in its modus vivendi/operandi, such as Colm Tóibín, Garrett Carr, and Darach MacDonald. keywords: border, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland conflict, borderland, geopolitics, border narratives.

2025, "Красноярский рабочий" № 51 (27923) 26.07.2024

Ежегодно с началом навигации суда уходили из на штурм Арктики. С полярными экспедициями, организованными Сибирским гидрографическим управлением, связано немало ярких страниц отечественной истории.

2025, Письменные памятники Востока

26–27 апреля 2019 г. в столице Республики Кыргызстан Бишкеке в Кыргызско-Российском Славянском университете (КРСУ) им. Б.Н. Ельцина состоялся международный молодежный форум «Россия и тюркский мир: взгляд молодежи из России и Киргизии». Мероприятие было организовано Санкт-Петербургским обществом научных и культурных связей с Турцией при поддержке российского Фонда президентских грантов. Цель форума состояла в том, чтобы способствовать укреплению и расширению экспертных связей между Российской Федерацией и Республикой Кыргызстан, и в частности объединению усилий студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых в рамках проводимых в двух странах исследований языков, истории, культуры и этнографии тюркских народов.

2025, Ensemble-A bi-lingual peer reviwed academic journal

Women's travel experiences in the first two decades of the twentieth century helped us to understand their dilemmas, restrictions, insecurities, and desires. Their autobiographies, writings in the periodicals, novels, stories are significant sources that I discuss in this paper. Women were increasingly becoming the travel partner of her male counterpart. This was the outcome of western influence that impacted social and gender relations in the colonial period. Also, it was a challenge to the 'effeminate Bengali' men by the 'manly Englishman' to situate the 'new woman' in a new social place to justify their modernity. Here I show the imprints of how women conceptualized freedom in the literary domain. This freedom of women was not either for their emancipation or their freedom. It was temporary in every sense. Domestic space remained the natural 'domain' for women. However, this experience of travel helped them understand and develop the meaning of freedom. In the heydays of the anti-colonial nationalist movement, freedom had several meanings to people in India cutting across class, caste, group and sectarian affiliations. My work contributes to that jigsaw puzzle by giving a narrative of what meaning freedom carried to the middle-class Hindu Bengali women.

2025, 65e Rencontres - Hôtels et vie de cour en pays bourguignons et voisins (XIVe-XVIe siècles) Lausanne, 12-14 septembre

2025, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Årsbok 2021

2025

The final goal of this research is to investigate the design of Qajar women's clothing in different periods. In the first step, the question arises whether the cover can be a language. Then this research seeks an answer to the question of what messages in the form of language mean. Therefore, in the current research, the above issue has been analyzed by a case study of Qajar women's clothing and using a descriptive-analytical qualitative research method. Findings: This study shows that the clothing of Qajar women can be considered a single language of signs. In deciphering this language, concepts such as women's attention to religious foundations, gender inequality, and patriarchal view in society, the value of wearing Iran's old traditions, as well as the desire to move towards westernization and fashionism of Europeans can be inferred. The results of this research show the importance of the role, color, code, sign, symbol, and finally language in the field of women's clothing in the Qajar period.

2025, Religions

Al-Qāsim b. Yūsuf al-Tujībī (d. 730/1329) compiled a travelogue titled Mustafād al-Riḥla wa-l-Ightirāb (The Benefits of Travel and Being Abroad), in which he blended the literary genres of riḥla (travelogue) and muʿjam al-shuyūkh (biographical dictionary of one’s teachers). This article spatializes al-Tujībī’s journey, as depicted in Mustafād al-Riḥla, by employing geographical information systems software to map the locations and routes described in his travelogue. Additionally, the paper examines the structure and style of the travelogue, which blends the riḥla and muʿjam genres, highlighting the combination and hybridization of literary forms. This analysis considers al-Tujībī’s engagement with encyclopedic compilations in Mamluk Cairo and the influence of this intellectual environment on his work. Finally, by highlighting the scholarly network that al-Tujībī established in Egypt and Ḥijāẓ, the paper explores the role of pilgrimage journeys in merging religious duty with scholarly pursuits.

2025

This article focuses on a crucial question for the accurate translation and commentary of "The Journey Beyond Three Seas"-determining the chronological framework of the travels described in the work. The article proposes a new dating for Afanasy Nikitin's journey, placing it between 1467 and 1474. The traveler celebrated Easter on March 29, 1467 (Klin), April 17, 1468 (Chapakur), and April 2, 1469 (Hormuz). In April-May of that year, he crossed the Arabian Sea and by mid-September 1469, he reached Bidar. In March 1470, he embarked on a journey "towards Pervoti." In 1470-1471, while somewhere "near Pervoti," within the territory of pagan states, Afanasy could not observe the Holy Days, as he had lost track of the alignment of the current time with the Christian calendar. Afanasy celebrated Easter in 1472 and 1473 in Bidar and Gulbarga, respectively. He observed his last Easter during his journey home on April 10, 1474, in Muscat, and completed his life's journey under Smolensk in the winter of 1474/1475. The widespread popularity of "The Journey" in our time echoes the multilingual environment through which his path led. Afanasy passed through territories inhabited by East Slavic, Finno-Ugric, and Turkic peoples. Starting from the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea, the traveler entered a different linguistic environment-the space of Iranian languages (Talysh, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Persian, etc.). It is possible that studying one of the Iranian languages delayed Afanasy on his journey between the Caspian and the Indian Ocean but later allowed him to successfully pass himself off as someone from the Khorasan region, where Persian was the most common language. Afanasy's route led from the ancient Russian principalities to the Kazan Khanate, the Great Horde, Shirvan, Gilan, and Mazandaran, and the Timurid Empire. In India, Afanasy visited the states of Gujarat, the Bahmani Sultanate, and the Vijayanagara Empire. On his return journey, he also visited the state of Ak Koyunlu, the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Many of the listed states were at war with each other during Afanasy Nikitin's travels, but wars, sooner or later, end in peace. The example of Afanasy Nikitin, who went through numerous trials and called for justice and peace in his work, remains important for his readers even today.

2025, Clotho

In 1740, Father Žiga Škerpin (Sigismundus Skerpin, 1689‒1755) attended the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order in Castile as a representative of the Croatian and Carniolan Province of the Franciscan Order. During the journey from Ljubljana to Valladolid and back, which lasted from 24 January to 10 September, he recorded his experiences. After the return, he completed the manuscript Diarium oder Kurze beschreibung der Raiß, which is kept in the Franciscan Monastery in Kamnik. The text is in German, except for a few passages in Latin. Škerpin travelled through Carniola, Carinthia, and Tyrol, along the border between the Holy Roman Empire and the Swiss Confederation, and then through Alsace and Burgundy to the south, as he wanted to see as much of France as possible. He also stayed in France for a long time on his way home: from Valladolid he travelled through southwestern France and stopped for several days in Paris and Versailles. In the Habsburg hereditary lands, the journey went smoothly: Škerpin spent the night in Franciscan and other monasteries, and he was also received kindly by the secular authorities. When he travelled along Lake Constance and the Rhine, he often found himself in a politically and religiously different environment, for example in the Protestant areas of the Swiss Confederation (e.g. Basel). He encountered the greatest difficulties in France, partly because he did not know French. He regularly complained about the lack of respect of the French towards the clergy, their general inhospitality and high prices. Regardless, he was taken by the orderliness of French ecclesiastical, state, and city institutions, especially monasteries, universities, and hospitals, and the grandeur of architectural and engineering achievements, such as roads, bridges, forts, water pumps, and canals. He felt more accepted in Spain, where he noticed a great respect for priests, especially the Franciscans.

2025, The Sixties in Croatia - Myth and Reality

The text talks about the development of fashion photography in Croatia in the 1960s and the pioneers of that genre.

2025, The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations

This article is about the work of Ibn Battuta, a famous Arab traveler, geographer and ethnographer who lived in the 14th century, and that this work has been translated into different languages of the world. There is ample information that researchers and orientalists have translated this work from the original source into their languages and published it in various journals and publications. In particular, it should be noted that the work "Travelogue" has been translated into the Uzbek language.

2025

Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in Russian literature from the first half of the XIXth century: questions and (possible) answers

2025

La french AI du Chat de Mistral
(Premiers indices concernant ses raisons selon lady Lovelace)

2025, Српске студије 15

Феликс Каниц, Путовање по јужној Србији и северној Бугарској 1864.,
Београд: Институт за јавну политику, Универзитетска библиотека
,,Светозар Марковић”, 2023, 91. стр.

2025, The Medieval History Journal (SAGE Publications Inc. United States), Volume 26, Issue 1, 2023, Pp 57-83.

Drawing on Arabic travelogues, this study traces the overland routes that were used by travellers between Bilād Al-S̲ hām and Istanbul during the Ottoman era. The study also identifies the key towns and villages located along these routes and delves into how Arab voyagers documented these towns and villages' names as close as possible to their original Ottoman names. Moreover, the means of transportation that were used were also identified. The study draws a comprehensive table with the names of the places that the Arab voyagers documented either on their way to Istanbul or on the way back home. By drawing on Arabic travelogues, the study makes a significant contribution to historical geography during the Ottoman Empire.

2025, Journal of Transport History, Vol. 39, No. 2, p. 268-270

provide a focus on the vehicles themselves, yet the author argues that automobilism is about much more than cars. Moreover, the book also does not encompass everything that could be said about automobilism: some important motor vehicles and themes are missing, such as the motorcycle and the development of French roads which since the 1950s have been crucial for promoting the wine industry to tourists. To sum up, this book is a solid historical work based on a wide range of source materials and is mainly iconographic (around three images by page). It shows clearly and concisely how French society was transformed by the motor vehicle during the Thirty Glorious, and can be read by specialists of mobility or not. Finally, it allows readers to understand the place of automobilism in French society and to consider the context of the third automobile revolution that we can see today in France.

2025, Урбанистическая нарративность в прозе Андрея Левкина: от топографии места к томографии текста // Новый филологический вестник. 2024. № 2 (69). С. 260–271.

В статье рассматривается проза современного российского прозаика и эссеиста Андрея Левкина как пример нетрадиционных писательских практик, включающих принципиально иной тип репрезентации городского пространства. Автор статьи вводит и... more

2025

Откровенной фальсификации в последние годы подвергаются
исторические события и социальные категории. Возвращаясь к фактам, которые подверглись сознательным и целенаправленным идеологическим искажениям, следует особо выделить следующие феномены:
формирование нации и национальных государств, вызывающих до сегодняшнего дня неоднозначные оценки и научные дискуссии исследователей.

2025, DergiPark (Istanbul University)

Osmanlılarda coğrafya çalışmalarının XVI. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar geleneksel İslam coğrafyacılarının izinde meydana getirilmiş olan eserler ile kendi içerisinde bir olgunluğa eriştiği bilinmektedir. 1 Diğer taraftan aynı yüzyılın sonlarına doğru, Avrupa'da coğrafyacılık ve haritacılık alanlarında görülen gelişmeler, modern anlamda "ilk atlas" kabul edilen Abraham Ortelius ve Gerardus Mercator'un ve çağdaşı coğrafyacı-kartografların çalışmaları ön plana çıkmıştır. Bunlar gerek coğrafya gerekse haritacılık açısından coğrafyacılığa bütünsel ve bilimsel anlamda bakışı yakalayan sistematik yapısıyla hem Doğu'da hem de Batı'da bu alanda öncülük eden eserler olarak kabul görmüştür. 2 Nitekim Avrupa'daki çalışmalarda 1 Bahsi geçen dönem içerisinde daha çok Semerkant Ekolü olarak adlandırılan İslam Coğrafya Ekolü dahilinde kabul edilebilcek eserler kaleme alınmış olmasının yanı sıra Fatih Sultan Mehmed döneminde tercüme edilen Batlamyus Coğrafyası, daha sonraki dönemde Piri Reis'in Kitab-ı Bahriyye'si ve meşhur haritası, Ali Macar Reis ve Tunuslu Hacı Ahmed'in çalışmaları gibi eserlerin ışığında Osmanlıların büsbütün Avrupa çalışmalarından habersiz olmadığını vurgulamak yerinde olacaktır. Bu açıdan Doğu menşeli eserlerin mükemmeli ve Batlamyus coğrafyasının son doğu nüshası olarak kabul edilen Menazirül Avalim sistematik bir kemalin göstergesidir. Eserle ilgili ayrıntı için bkz. Mahmut Ak, Menâzirü'l-Avâlim,

2025

Gottfried Hagen, Bir Osmanli Cografyacisi Is Basinda, Kâtib Celebi'nin Cihannumâ'si ve Dusunce Dunyasi, (cev. Hilal Gorgun), Kure Yayinlari, Istanbul 2016, V+518 sf. Gottfried Hagen, Bir Osmanli Cografyacisi Is Basinda, Kâtib... more

2025

Nafsu adalah landasan kepada akhlak yang ada dalam diri manusia. Nafsu yang terdidik akan melahirkan masyarakat yang mempunyai jati diri dan keimanan yang teguh. Kajian ini menggunakan teks kajian novel Tautan Hati (2012) karya Fatimah Syarha terbitan Telaga Biru Sdn. Bhd. bagi mengenalpasti, menghurai dan juga menilai sifat-sifat nafsu lawwamah yang terdapat dalam novel tersebut. Kajian dilakukan berikutan begitu banyak kepincangan akhlak dewasa ini yang didasari oleh kerakusan nafsu manusia. Ia secara tidak langsung menjadi gambaran fenomena kepincangan akhlak dalam masyarakat. Nafsu lawwamah dilihat sebagai nafsu yang menonjol dalam novel Tautan Hati. Nafsu hanya dapat dikendali dengan baik apabila masyarakat dapat mengenali sifat-sifat nafsu tersebut. Sifat-sifat nafsu yang dikenali dalam novel Tautan Hati menjadi kayu ukur dan cerminan sosial masyarakat. Dengan mengenali sifat-sifat tersebut, maka masyarakat dapat membaiki kehidupan masing-masing ke arah yang lebih baik apabila sama-sama mengendali sifat tersebut menuju ke jalan yang diredaiNya. Kajian dilakukan secara kualitatif menggunakan bahan bacaan yang berkaitan sifat nafsu watak-watak dalam novel. Kajian nafsu lawwamah dalam novel Tautan Hati membataskan kepada tiga sifat yang dominan iaitu, ujub, ghibah dan juga dusta. Kesimpulannya, watak-watak dalam novel memiliki sifat-sifat nafsu lawwamah yang mendorong menjauhkan diri daripada Allah SWT serta dalam masa yang sama mereka bertindak tanpa keutuhan iman dalam diri.

2025

This article explores Galagan's social and political visions through a comparative analysis of his travelogues, set against three cultural contexts: the local Cossack officers' milieu, the Russian imperial framework, and Enlightenment ideals. By comparing Galagan's writings with the narratives of other Cossack officers such as Kozelskyi, Poletyka, and Vynskyi, this study reveals that Galagan's social and political identities reflect a broader, shared collective identity shaped by Enlightenment ideals, which evolved into a distinct regional interpretation. Galagan aligns with core values such as love of humanity, justice, and common well-being. His notion of equality focuses on the benevolent treatment of members of society rather than on social status, and reason is seen as a means to achieve well-being rather than an end in itself. By the time of his travels these concepts were already internalized within his identity, reflecting a blend of regional and Enlightenment influences, which contrasted with Russian imperial discourse. Galagan's case exemplifies the synthesis of regional identity with Enlightenment ideals, contributing to a humanistic and occasionally republican worldview. The study supports the argument that the Enlightenment provided a nurturing environment for the evolution of Cossack officers' core values into republican or anti-absolutist ideas.

2025

Syftet med arbete är att redovisa för tre Helsingfors stationerade hotells åsikter om marknadssituationen av online distributionskanaler. Online bokningskanaler som Booking.com, Expedia.com mm. har en stark position på marknaden men META sökmotorer har nyligen börjat sälja rum direkt istället för att enbart leda till OTAs. Arbetet behandlar problematiken med distributionskanaler från hotellens synvinkel. Teorin omfattar aktuella artiklar inom ämnet samt en australiensk fallstudie. Mest fokuserar teorin på OTAs, dvs. Online resebyråer, samt framtidsvisioner om distributionsmarknadsläget i Helsingfors. Undersökningen utförs med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer med tre anonyma hotell stationerade i Helsingfors. Ett medelstort hotell och två stora hotellkedjor för att komma åt olika infallsvinklar. Genom undersökningen kommer det fram att hotellen anser dessa online distributionskanaler vara problematiska. Det medelstora hotellet försöker leva i symbios med online bokningskanalerna medan de större kedjorna aktivt leder kunderna till sin egen hemsida. På det sättet kan hotellen ge sina kunder en mera personlig upplevelse samtidigt som hotellet tjänar mera pengar. Hotellen lockar kunderna till sin egen hemsida genom CRM, sökmotoroptimering och utveckling av sin egen hemsida. För tillfället är de flesta hotells egna hemsidor föråldrade jämfört med online bokningskanalernas sajter som dessutom erbjuder mera funktioner, som t.ex. jämförelse med andra hotell och bedömningssystem. På basen av denna undersökning ser det ut som att de stora hotellkedjorna tillsammans med meta-sökmotorer kommer att ta över marknaden i framtiden. Oavsett framtidsvisionen så är nyckeln till framgång för alla parter är att ge kunden en mera personlig upplevelse. Arbetet är begränsat till åsikter från enbart tre hotell och bokningskanalernas synpunkter behandlas ej.

2025

In: Denise Dumschat-Rehfeldt, Christoph Jürgensen, Stefan Neumann und Antonius Weixler (Hg.): Popschreibweisen seit 2000. Stuttgart: Metzler 2023, 55–66.

2025, Intorcettiana

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Roman abbot Ilarione Bonaventura Sala embarked on a remarkable journey to China as a missionary sent by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide. His unpublished diary captures not only the logistical and cultural challenges of such an undertaking but also the complex interactions between European missionaries and local communities. Sala’s narrative offers unique insights into early modern global exchanges, interwoven with his personal reflections, culinary discoveries, and emotional struggles.
This article explores Sala’s diary as a valuable historical source, shedding light on the interplay of faith, science, and cultural adaptation within the context of transoceanic missions.

2025, Suzdaľský travelóg o ceste na koncil do Florencie a späť. Bratislava : Post Sriptum

The 15th century Suzdalian travelogue describes the journey of Metropolitan Isidore of Kiev to the Council of Florence (1437-1440). Its study within the longue durée (manuscript copies span from 15th till 17th centuries) proves that it... more