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Before Orientalism : Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510

Phillips, Kim M. [Verfasser]

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)

The Middle Ages Series

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978-0-8122-0894-8 ; 978-0-8122-4548-6

ND 1210

 

Asien  Reisebericht  Europäer  Europa  Reiseliteratur  Asienbild  Geschichte 1245-1510 

Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring.