The 'book' of travels :  genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / 
 Book' of travels 
edited by Palmira Brummett. 
 - xvi, 329 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ;  25 cm. 
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;  v. 140. .
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;  v. 140. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : genre, witness, and time in the 'book' of travels /  Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 /  Ruy González 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 /  Palmira Brummett --  Joan-Pau Rubiés --  David J. Roxburgh --  Daniel K. Connolly --  Wes Williams --  Pompa Banerjee --  Mary Baine Campbell. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9004174982 9789004174986 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009008453 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europeans--Travel--Asia<br/>Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism<br/>Literary form--History<br/>Travelers' writings, European--Themes, motives<br/>Ethnology in literature<br/>Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature<br/>Intercultural communication in literature
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Description and travel.<br/>Asia--In literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS6  / .B66 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.043