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Title:

The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Asia--Description and travel.
Europeans--Travel--Asia.
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
Literary form--History.
Travelers' writings, European--Themes, motives.
Ethnology in literature.
Asia--In literature.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Intercultural communication in literature.

Other Authors:

Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.

Contents:

Afterword : one reader reading / Mary Baine Campbell. Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Ruy González 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.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 140

ISBN:

9004174982 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004174986 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)298412055

LCCN:

2009008453

Locations:

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)