Phillips, Kim M., <br/><br/>
Before Orientalism :  Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 / 
 Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 
Kim M. Phillips. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - viii, 314 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
 - The Middle Ages series .
 - Middle Ages series. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  Theory, People, Genres : --  On Orientalism --  Travelers, Tales, Audiences --  Travel Writing and the Making of Europe --  Envisioning Orients : --  Food and Foodways --  Femininities --  Sex --  Civility --  Bodies --  Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages.  Part I.  1.  2.  3.  Part II.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8. 
<br/><br/> "Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring. "--Publisher's website. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812245486 0812245482 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013019443 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel, Medieval--History--Sources<br/>Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800<br/>Asia--Foreign public opinion, Western--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GT5240  / .P55 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48209