LEADER 04723nam 22008291 450 001 9910824731803321 005 20211013224018.0 010 $a0-8122-0897-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208979 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072169 035 $a(OCoLC)899045460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10802402 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001080207 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11585076 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080207 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11070006 035 $a(PQKB)10861104 035 $a(OCoLC)867742000 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27270 035 $a(DE-B1597)449764 035 $a(OCoLC)979970112 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208979 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10802402 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682655 035 $a(OCoLC)899277920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442294 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072169 100 $a20130701h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn light of another's word $eEuropean ethnography in the Middle Ages /$fShirin A. Khanmohamadi 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (211 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51373-2 311 0 $a0-8122-4562-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period --$t2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales --$t3. Writing Ethnography "In the Eyes of the Other": William of Rubruck's Mission to Mongolia --$t4. Casting a "Sideways Glance" at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis --$t5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aChallenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe. These authors-William of Rubruck among the Mongols, "John Mandeville" cataloguing the world's diverse wonders, Geraldus Cambrensis describing the manners of the twelfth-century Welsh, and Jean de Joinville in his account of the various Saracens encountered on the Seventh Crusade-display an uncanny ability to see and understand from the perspective of the very strangers who are their subjects. Khanmohamadi elaborates on a distinctive late medieval ethnographic poetics marked by both a profound openness to alternative perspectives and voices and a sense of the formidable threat of such openness to Europe's governing religious and cultural orthodoxies. That we can hear the voices of medieval Europe's others in these narratives in spite of such orthodoxies allows us to take full measure of the productive forces of disorientation and destabilization at work on these early ethnographic writers .Poised at the intersection of medieval studies, anthropology, and visual culture, In Light of Another's Word is an innovative departure from each, extending existing studies of medieval travel writing into the realm of poetics, of ethnographic form into the premodern realm, and of early visual culture into the realm of ethnographic encounter. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aAuthors, Medieval$xAttitudes 606 $aCivilization, Medieval 606 $aEast and West$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aEthnology$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aTravel, Medieval$xHistory$vSources 606 $aTravelers' writings, European$xHistory and criticism 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aAuthors, Medieval$xAttitudes. 615 0$aCivilization, Medieval. 615 0$aEast and West$xHistory 615 0$aEthnology$xHistory 615 0$aTravel, Medieval$xHistory 615 0$aTravelers' writings, European$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a305.80094 700 $aKhanmohamadi$b Shirin A$01662042 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824731803321 996 $aIn light of another's word$94018369 997 $aUNINA