The 'book' of travels [electronic resource] : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.
Contributor(s): Brummett, Palmira Johnson | ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookSeries: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions: v. 140.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).Subject(s): Europeans -- Travel -- Asia | Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism | Literary form -- History | Travelers' writings, European -- Themes, motives | Ethnology in literature | Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | Intercultural communication in literature | Asia -- Description and travel | Asia -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 915.04/3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.
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 Rubi�es -- Ruy Gonz�alez 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.
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