Remapping travel narratives (1000-1700) : to the East and back again /: to the East and back again. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Montserrat Piera.
• Other Names: Piera, Montserrat
• Contents: Introduction: 'Travel as episteme: An Introductory Journey' by Montserrat Piera Part I. Transforming the rihla tradition: The Search for Knowledge in Jewish, Muslim and Christian Travelers 1: From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani's Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage by Rebecca Gould 2: Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts by Janet Sorrentino 3: Vulnerable Iberian Travelers: Benjamin of Tudela's Sefer ha-Massa'ot, Pero Tafur's Andanças e viajes and Ahmad al-Wazzan's Geography of Africa by Montserrat Piera Part II. Imagining the East: Egypt, Persia and Istanbul in my mind 4: 'Tierras de Egipto': Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia by Matthew V. Desing 5: The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert's re-vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile by Nedda Mehdizadeh 6: Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi'ite Rituals in Safavid Iran from Early Modern European Travel Accounts by Elio Brancaforte 7: Visions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle's Travel to Constantinople by Sezim Sezer Darnault and Aygül Ağır Part III: To the East and Back: Exchanging Objects, Ideas and Texts 8: Gift-giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246–1248 AD) by Adriano Duque 9: The East-West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza by Gregory B. Kaplan 10: Piety and Piracy: Repatriating the Arm of St. Francis Xavier by Pilar Ryan 11: The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) by Ambereen Dadabhoy 12: Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit by Julia Schleck Index.
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 910.4; Travel writing -- History -- To 1500; Travel, Medieval -- History; Culture diffusion; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; TRAVEL / Budget; TRAVEL / Hikes & Walks; TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; TRAVEL / Parks & Campgrounds; HISTORY / World; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781942401605; 1942401604
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 23, 2019).; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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