This essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania. I examine travelogues geography texts describing these Eastern European territories written by Marco Polo (1579), Abraham Ortelius (1601; 1608), Nicolas de Nicolay (1585), Johannes Boemus (1611), Pierre d’Avity ...

In his book Music, Ideas, History: Texts 1990–2022 Matti Huttunen sheds light on the world of Western art music by showing how past historiographies have given it form and meaning. While grounded in Dahlhaus’ principles structural history, also challenges such models allowing greater interpretive multidimensionality. future accounts Finnish musicology, Huttunen’s writings may provide a focus fo...

Travel writings by Western visitors of the Orient have often been rebuffed for disseminating a stereotypical discourse on people and culture East. The rationale collective dismissal such narratives, however, is built upon limited canon whose myopic perspective creates monolithic Orient. It argued that since this dominant leaves nearly no room non-conformism, it has conveniently overlooked large...