TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brummett,Palmira Johnson
TI  - The 'book' of travels: genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 
T2  - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
SN  - 9004174982
AV  - DS6 .B66 2009
U1  - 915.043 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Travel
KW  - Asia
KW  - Travelers' writings, European
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary form
KW  - History
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Ethnology in literature
KW  - Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
KW  - Intercultural communication in literature
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -