{"title":"Greek Women’s Habits through the Eyes of Early Travellers to Chios","authors":"Efterpi Mitsi","doi":"10.12681/historein.18504","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the images and interpretation of clothing in relation to geographical and cultural space, this article explores the verbal and visual representation of the women of Chios in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travel writing. The juxtaposition of text and image epitomises the women’s ambiguous depiction in relation to the growing interest in cultural differences as they are manifested through customs of dress. In Nicolas de Nicolay’s Navigations, the beauty of the women, who are compared to goddesses and nymphs, parallels the island’s wealth, fertility and glorious past. At the same time, the idealisation evident through the allusions to antiquity is counterbalanced by the women’s sexuality and extravagance, revealed through their dress, gesture and customs. In the context of the Ottoman Empire, which was seen by Nicolay and other early travellers as a realm of sexual depravation, the proliferation and reproduction of the images of Chian women suggest the ways in which gender, in particular, the dressed female body, is used to construct regional, national, and confessional identities.\nTo view the full text, click on the button \"HTML\".","PeriodicalId":38128,"journal":{"name":"Historein","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historein","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.18504","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Focusing on the images and interpretation of clothing in relation to geographical and cultural space, this article explores the verbal and visual representation of the women of Chios in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travel writing. The juxtaposition of text and image epitomises the women’s ambiguous depiction in relation to the growing interest in cultural differences as they are manifested through customs of dress. In Nicolas de Nicolay’s Navigations, the beauty of the women, who are compared to goddesses and nymphs, parallels the island’s wealth, fertility and glorious past. At the same time, the idealisation evident through the allusions to antiquity is counterbalanced by the women’s sexuality and extravagance, revealed through their dress, gesture and customs. In the context of the Ottoman Empire, which was seen by Nicolay and other early travellers as a realm of sexual depravation, the proliferation and reproduction of the images of Chian women suggest the ways in which gender, in particular, the dressed female body, is used to construct regional, national, and confessional identities.
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本文着眼于服装与地理和文化空间的关系,探讨了16世纪和17世纪旅行写作中希俄斯女性的语言和视觉表现。文本和图像的并列体现了女性对文化差异日益增长的兴趣的模糊描述,因为她们通过服装习俗表现出来。在尼古拉斯·德·尼古拉(Nicolas de Nicolay)的《航海》(Navigations)中,女性的美丽被比作女神和仙女,与该岛的财富、富饶和辉煌的过去相媲美。与此同时,通过古代典故明显的理想化被女性的性和奢侈所抵消,通过她们的服装,姿势和习俗揭示出来。在奥斯曼帝国的背景下,尼古拉和其他早期旅行者将其视为性堕落的王国,中国女性形象的扩散和复制表明,性别,特别是穿着的女性身体,被用来构建地区、国家和忏悔身份。要查看全文,请点击“HTML”按钮。