The ‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700
Biographical note
Palmira Brummett, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Tenessee. Her work focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter in the Afro-Eurasian oikumene.
Readership
Those interested in cross-cultural encounters; the medieval and early modern histories of Europe, the Middle East and South Asia; mapping; the literatures of travel; and narratives of built space.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
A Note on Translation
Note on Contributors
1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett
2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés
3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh
4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly
5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams
6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa Banerjee
Afterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine Campbell
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
A Note on Translation
Note on Contributors
1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett
2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés
3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh
4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly
5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams
6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa Banerjee
Afterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine Campbell
Bibliography
Index
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