LEADER 04441nam 2200697 450 001 9910464516403321 005 20211013223722.0 010 $a0-8122-0894-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208948 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072168 035 $a(OCoLC)870337038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10802401 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001179386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11794208 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001179386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11181552 035 $a(PQKB)10905039 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442293 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27266 035 $a(DE-B1597)449779 035 $a(OCoLC)1004874640 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208948 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442293 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10802401 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682582 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072168 100 $a20130517h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore Orientalism $eAsian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 /$fKim M. Phillips 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51300-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4548-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on the Text --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Theory, People, Genres --$tChapter 1. On Orientalism --$tChapter 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences --$tChapter 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe --$tPart II. Envisioning Orients --$tChapter 4. Food and Foodways --$tChapter 5. Femininities --$tChapter 6. Sex --$tChapter 7. Civility --$tChapter 8. Bodies --$tAfterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aA distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made-or claimed to have made-journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring. In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aTravel, Medieval$xHistory$vSources 606 $aTravelers' writings, European$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAsia$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aAsia$xForeign public opinion, Western$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravel, Medieval$xHistory 615 0$aTravelers' writings, European$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a303.48/209 700 $aPhillips$b Kim M$0853182 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464516403321 996 $aBefore Orientalism$91905115 997 $aUNINA