Curated category
Admiration of foreign cultures
- OrientalismThe word orient entered the English language as the Middle French orient in the late medieval period. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about conquering many great…
- SlavophiliaMoscow in the 1830s became the birthplace of Slavophilia, an intellectual movement that rejected Western European modernization.
- Viking revivalThe first printed edition of the 13th-century Gesta Danorum appeared in 1514. This text by Saxo Grammaticus arrived just as book printing became practical…
- JapanophiliaCarl Peter Thunberg stood in a Japanese garden during the late 1700s and cataloged plants that had never been seen by European eyes.