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Connected histories in the early modern world |
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Connected histories in the early modern world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 23, 2019). |
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| Summary |
A new look at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads influenced the Western Renaissance, through analysis of travel narratives and travelogues from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TRAVEL AS EPISTEME--AN INTRODUCTORY JOURNEY / Piera, Montserrat -- PART I. TRANSFORMING THE RIHLA TRADITION: THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE IN JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN TRAVELLERS -- Chapter 1. From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani's Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage / Gould, Rebecca -- Chapter 2. Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts / Sorrentino, Janet -- Chapter 3. Vulnerable Medieval Iberian Travellers: Benjamin of Tudela's Sefer ha- Massa'ot, Pero Tafur's Andanças e viajes, and Ahmad al- Wazzan's Libro de la Cosmogrophia et Geographia de Africa / Piera, Montserrat -- PART II. IMAGINING THE EAST: EGYPT, PERSIA, AND ISTANBUL IN MY MIND -- Chapter 4. "Tierras de Egipto": Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia / Desing, Matthew V. -- Chapter 5. The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert's Re- vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile / Mehdizadeh, Nedda -- Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi'ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts / Brancaforte, Elio -- Chapter 7. Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle's Travel to Istanbul (1614-1615) / Darnault, Sezim Sezer / Air, Aygül -- PART III. TO THE EAST AND BACK: EXCHANGING OBJECTS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS -- Chapter 8. Gift- giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246- 1248 ce) / Duque, Adriano -- Chapter 9. The East- West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza / Kaplan, Gregory B. -- Chapter 10. Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier / Ryan, Maria Del Pilar -- Chapter 11. The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) / Dadabhoy, Ambereen -- Chapter 12. Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit / Schleck, Julia -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Open Access EbpS |
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Travel writing -- History -- To 1500.
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Travel, Medieval -- History.
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Culture diffusion.
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Travel, Medieval.
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Voyage -- Histoire -- 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
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Diffusion culturelle.
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cultural diffusion.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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TRAVEL -- Budget.
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TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Culture diffusion
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Travel, Medieval
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Travel writing
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Piera, Montserrat.
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| ISBN |
9781942401605 (electronic bk.) |
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1942401604 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000065266937 |
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UKMGB 019081814 |
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