Remapping travel narratives (1000-1700) : to the East and back again /

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A new look at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads influenced the Western Renaissance, through analysis of travel narratives and travelogues from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Piera, Montserrat
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amsterdam] : Arc Humanities Press, 2018.
Colección:Connected histories in the early modern world.
Temas:
To 1500
Travel writing > History > To 1500.
Travel, Medieval > History.
Culture diffusion.
Voyage > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Diffusion culturelle.
cultural diffusion.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
HISTORY > World.
Travel, Medieval.
Travel writing.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: TRAVEL AS EPISTEME--AN INTRODUCTORY JOURNEY / Piera, Montserrat
  • PART I. TRANSFORMING THE RIHLA TRADITION: THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE IN JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN TRAVELLERS
  • Chapter 1. From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani's Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage / Gould, Rebecca
  • Chapter 2. Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts / Sorrentino, Janet
  • Chapter 3. Vulnerable Medieval Iberian Travellers: Benjamin of Tudela's Sefer ha- Massa'ot, Pero Tafur's Andanças e viajes, and Ahmad al- Wazzan's Libro de la Cosmogrophia et Geographia de Africa / Piera, Montserrat
  • PART II. IMAGINING THE EAST: EGYPT, PERSIA, AND ISTANBUL IN MY MIND
  • Chapter 4. "Tierras de Egipto": Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia / Desing, Matthew V.
  • Chapter 5. The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert's Re- vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile / Mehdizadeh, Nedda
  • Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi'ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts / Brancaforte, Elio
  • Chapter 7. Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle's Travel to Istanbul (1614-1615) / Darnault, Sezim Sezer / Ağir, Aygül
  • PART III. TO THE EAST AND BACK: EXCHANGING OBJECTS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS
  • Chapter 8. Gift- giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246- 1248 ce) / Duque, Adriano
  • Chapter 9. The East- West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza / Kaplan, Gregory B.
  • Chapter 10. Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier / Ryan, Maria Del Pilar
  • Chapter 11. The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) / Dadabhoy, Ambereen
  • Chapter 12. Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit / Schleck, Julia
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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