East-Central Europe in Transition from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century.

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
David P. Daniel ◽  
Antoni Maczak ◽  
Henryk Samsonowicz ◽  
Peter Burke
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central

scholarly journals The English Connection: Jacob and Johann Philipp Breyne, James Petiver and Plants: The Correspondence between the Breynes and Petiver from the 1690s

2022 ◽  
Vol 128 (5) ◽  
pp. 167-198
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central

The article discusses the hitherto unknown correspondence between the Danzig (present-day Gdańsk) botanist Jacob Breyne, his son Johann Philipp Breyne, and James Petiver in the last decade of the seventeenth century. Their correspondence documents contacts between one of the most important naturalists of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the seventeenth century and members of the Royal Society. The content of the letters reveals how books, naturalia and various artefacts circulated between Western and East-Central Europe. It also reveals the principles of reciprocity and friendship followed by those who conducted inquiries into natural history.

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (4 (244)) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Anna Kalinowska
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Travel Diary

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

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