Early modern travel literature

Printed travelogues from the 16th to the 19th century shaped the ideas of foreign countries and continents. They informed, alienated and dramatised and thus satisfied the curiosity of the readers. They could trigger admiration and amazement as well as feelings of superiority. Many of the travelogues digitised on the e-rara platform are available as full texts and can be searched by keyword. In this way, the depiction of certain regions (for example ameri*), foreign religions (for example braman*), Indian languages (for example damul*, sanscrit*), and much more can be compared in the various reports. The pictorial representation is also interesting, as many travelogues contain prints.

Data and Resources

Metadata of the traveloguesCSV
Column names: oai_id title creator year language publisher subjects...
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Text corpus of the traveloguesJSON
The JSON file contains the metadata of 170 printed travelogues, as well as...
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Additional information

Identifier

gedruckte-reiseberichte-des-16-bis-19-jh@zb_zuerich

Title for URL of the dataset

Gedruckte Reiseberichte des 16. bis 19. Jh.

Schedule the publication of the dataset

Issued date

September 18, 2023

Modification date

September 19, 2023

Conforms to

Update interval

Irregular

Temporal coverage

January 1, 1501 - December 31, 1899

Publisher Information

Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Contact points

Annabelle Wiegart

Languages

German
French

URL

https://www.e-rara.ch/nav/classification/5878739

Relation

Spatial

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Keywords

Terms of use

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Metadata Access

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