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The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9004174982
  • 9789004174986
Other title:
  • Book' of travels [Parallel title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 915.043 22
LOC classification:
  • DS6 .B66 2009
Contents:
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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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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