ISBN:
9789004174986
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, XIX, 329 S
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Ill., Kt
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Andrea, Bernadette [Rezension von: Brummett, Palmira, The "Book" of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250—1700] 2011
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions Vol. 140
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
DDC:
915.04/3
Keywords:
Europeans Travel
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Travelers' writings, European History and criticism
;
Literary form History
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Travelers' writings, European Themes, motives
;
Ethnology in literature
;
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
;
Intercultural communication in literature
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
;
Reiseliteratur
;
Wallfahrt
;
Geschichte 1250-1700
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Genre, witness, and time in the "book" of travels
,
Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450
,
Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo's Narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand, 1404
,
Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king
,
"A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie" : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage
,
Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's Book of travels
,
Afterword: One reader reading
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