The Witness and the Other World : : Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 / / Mary Baine Campbell.
Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 14 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. The East
- 1. The Scriptural East: Egeria, Arculf, and the Written Pilgrimage
- 2. The Fabulous East: "Wonder Books" and Grotesque Facts
- 3. The Utter East: Merchant and Missionary Travels during the "Mongol Peace"
- 4. "That othere half": Mandeville Naturalizes the East
- Part Two. The West
- 5. "The end of the East": Columbus Discovers Paradise
- 6. "Inward Feeling": Ralegh and the Penetration of the Interior
- Epilogue: A Brief History of the Future
- References
- Index