Abstract
This overhauled version of a doctoral dissertation tackles a theme that has been rather neglected in the Kunstkammer literature so far: To what extent can objects from outside Europe be said to have conveyed useful information about those regions to their European visitors? The author bases his findings on three case-studies: the Gotha Kunstkammer in Schloss Friedenstein, William Courten's cabinet in London, and the Repository of the Royal Society in the same capital, thus spanning the period from the middle of the seventeenth to the early eighteenth century. At first sight the decision to compare collections in England and Germany may seem surprising, but all three adhered to the Danish model of the Museum Wormianum and participated in the same networks of donors, merchants and (distinguished) visitors. The documentation on the Gotha collection in the form of diaries, correspondence and archival sources is particularly rich, and the author ably draws...
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