The 'book' of travels : : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / / edited by Palmira Brummett.
The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to...
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| Superior document: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 140 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 140. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Rubies
- Ruy Gonzalez 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.