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The 'book' of travels [[electronic resource] ] : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / / edited by Palmira Brummett



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Titolo: The 'book' of travels [[electronic resource] ] : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / / edited by Palmira Brummett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
Disciplina: 915.04/3
Soggetto topico: Europeans - Travel - Asia
Travelers' writings, European - History and criticism
Literary form - History
Travelers' writings, European - Themes, motives
Ethnology in literature
Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Intercultural communication in literature
Soggetto geografico: Asia Description and travel
Asia In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BrummettPalmira Johnson <1950->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction : genre, witness, and time in the 'book' of travels / Palmira Brummett -- Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Ruy González de Clavijo's narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand, 1404 / David J. Roxburgh -- Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king / Daniel K. Connolly -- 'A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie' : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage / Wes Williams -- Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's book of travels / Pompa Banerjee -- Afterword : one reader reading / Mary Baine Campbell.
Sommario/riassunto: The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.
Titolo autorizzato: The 'book' of travels  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-60147-4
9786612601477
90-474-2844-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458804103321
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Serie: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; ; v. 140.