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Travels and travelogues in the middle ages / edited by Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: AMS studies in the Middle Ages ; no. 28.Publisher: New York : AMS Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0404641687
  • 9780404641689
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.40902 22
LOC classification:
  • G82 .T7 2009
Contents:
Mandeville's travels : a Rihla in disguise / Ana Pinto -- "They are like beasts, for they have no law" : ethnography and constructions of human difference in late-Medieval translations of Marco Polo's Book / Marianne O'Doherty -- Conveying the unimaginable : Odoric of Pordenone's travels and their vernacular translations / Richard Maber, Angela Tregoning -- The Pierpont Morgan Library manuscript M.723 : illustrations of Hayton's La Fleur des histoires d'Orient / Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine -- Margery Kempe and Italy : sacred space and the community in her soul / Christopher Roman -- Stairway to hell : infernal journeys in some Old and Middle English texts / Katrin Rupp -- Sites, places, and the empire : Lu You's travel on the Yangzi River in Southern Song China / Cong Ellen Zhang -- The text as map : Benedict the Pole's account of the Carpine mission to Mongolia (1246-1247) / Adriano Duque -- Desert traveling in al-Shanfara's "Lamiyyatu'l Arab" / Wisam Mansour.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mandeville's travels : a Rihla in disguise / Ana Pinto -- "They are like beasts, for they have no law" : ethnography and constructions of human difference in late-Medieval translations of Marco Polo's Book / Marianne O'Doherty -- Conveying the unimaginable : Odoric of Pordenone's travels and their vernacular translations / Richard Maber, Angela Tregoning -- The Pierpont Morgan Library manuscript M.723 : illustrations of Hayton's La Fleur des histoires d'Orient / Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine -- Margery Kempe and Italy : sacred space and the community in her soul / Christopher Roman -- Stairway to hell : infernal journeys in some Old and Middle English texts / Katrin Rupp -- Sites, places, and the empire : Lu You's travel on the Yangzi River in Southern Song China / Cong Ellen Zhang -- The text as map : Benedict the Pole's account of the Carpine mission to Mongolia (1246-1247) / Adriano Duque -- Desert traveling in al-Shanfara's "Lamiyyatu'l Arab" / Wisam Mansour.

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