The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 140.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xvi, 329 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9004174982
- 9789004174986
- Book' of travels [Parallel title]
- 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 literature
- 915.043 22
- DS6 .B66 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 915.043 BOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A454818B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 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.
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