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Author:
Khanmohamadi, Shirin A., author.
Title:
In light of another's word : European ethnography in the Middle Ages / Shirin A. Khanmohamadi.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
202 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm
Subject:
Ethnology--Europe--History--To 1500.
East and West--History--To 1500.
Travel, Medieval--Sources.--Sources.
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
Authors, Medieval--Attitudes.
Civilization, Medieval.
Notes:
Edition statement from Cataloging-in-Publication. Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Conquest, conversion, crusade, salvation : the discourse of anthropology and its uses in the medieval period -- Subjective beginnings : autoethnography and the partial gazes of Gerald of Wales -- Writing ethnography "in the eyes of the other" : William of Rubruck's mission to Mongolia -- Casting a "sideways glance" at the Crusades : the voice of the other in Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis -- Dis-orienting the self : the uncanny Travels of John Mandeville -- Conclusion.
Series:
The Middle Ages series
ISBN:
0812245628 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245622 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)842880474
LCCN:
2013026522
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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