Remapping travel narratives, 1000-1700 to the East and back again
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been label...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arc Humanities Press
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Connected histories in the early modern world.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637726706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 / Ağir, 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
