The "book" of travels
Subtitle: genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700
By: edited by Palmira Brummett.
Contributors: Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-
Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions -- v. 140
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9789004174986
Subjects: 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; Asia -- Description and travel; Asia -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Genre, witness, and time in the "book" of travels / Palmira Brummett; title: Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 / Joan-Pau Rubies; title: Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo's Narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand, 1404 / David J. Roxburgh; title: Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king / Daniel K. Connolly; title: "A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie" : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage / Wes Williams; title: Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's Book of travels / Pompa Banerjee; title: Afterword: One reader reading / Mary Baine Campbell.