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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464241203321

Autore

Weber Elka <1968, >

Titolo

Traveling through text : message and method in late medieval pilgrimage accounts / / Elka Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-95944-2

1-135-49572-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Studies in medieval history and culture

Disciplina

203/.5/0956940902

Soggetti

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Palestine

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Palestine

Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages - Palestine

Electronic books.

Palestine Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; A Note about Notes; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Significance of Medieval Religious Travel Writing; Chapter One Place; Chapter Two Text; Chapter Three Relationship; Chapter Four Alienation; Chapter Five Sacred Sites; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the perceptions of their readers by asserting the author's authority. The central paradox of religious travel writing is that the travel writer reads about a place, usually in a sacred text, decide to supplement the reading with the empirical experience of visiting and describing the place, and the creates his own descriptive text. But in writing this