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The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.

Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-
2009
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Title
The 'book' of travels : genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 / edited by Palmira Brummett.
Created/published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description
xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm
Associated name
Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-
Series statement
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 140
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.
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.
Series
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 140.
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands.

Call number
DS6 .B66 2009
Folger accession
222268051

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