The 'book' of travels genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 140.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.