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

Remapping travel narratives, 1000-1700 : : to the East and back again / / edited by Montserrat Piera.

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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been label...

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Superior document:Connected histories in the early modern world
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Piera, Montserrat,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Connected histories in the early modern world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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