The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 /

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This collection assesses genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage in a set of disparate travel narratives spanning the medieval to early modern eras. It assesses the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers witness, craft, and imagine desired, fearful, and sacred lands.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 140.
Temas:
Europeans > Travel > Asia.
Travelers' writings, European > History and criticism.
Literary form > History.
Travelers' writings, European > Themes, motives.
Ethnology in literature.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Européens > Voyages > Asie.
Écrits de voyageurs européens > Histoire et critique.
Genres littéraires > Histoire.
Écrits de voyageurs européens > Thèmes, motifs.
Ethnologie dans la littérature.
Communication interculturelle dans la littérature.
TRAVEL.
Ethnology in literature
Europeans > Travel
Intercultural communication in literature
Literary form
Literature
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Travel
Travelers' writings, European
Asia > Description and travel.
Asia > In literature.
Asie > Descriptions et voyages.
Asie > Dans la littérature.
Asia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : genre, witness, and time in the 'book' of travels / Palmira Brummett
  • Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 / Joan-Pau Rubiés
  • Ruy González de Clavijo's narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand, 1404 / David J. Roxburgh
  • Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king / Daniel K. Connolly
  • 'A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie' : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage / Wes Williams
  • Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's book of travels / Pompa Banerjee
  • Afterword : one reader reading / Mary Baine Campbell.

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