TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Kim M.
TI  - Before Orientalism: Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 
T2  - The Middle Ages series
SN  - 9780812245486
AV  - GT5240 .P55 2014
U1  - 303.48209 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Philadelphia,
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Travel, Medieval
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Travelers' writings, European
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Asia
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Foreign public opinion, Western
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Part I; Theory, People, Genres : --; 1; On Orientalism --; 2; Travelers, Tales, Audiences --; 3; Travel Writing and the Making of Europe --; Part II; Envisioning Orients : --; 4; Food and Foodways --; 5; Femininities --; 6; Sex --; 7; Civility --; 8; Bodies --; Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages
N2  - "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
ER  -