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Remapping travel narratives (1000-1700) : to the East and back again / edited by Montserrat Piera.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Connected histories in the early modern worldPublisher: [Amsterdam] : Arc Humanities Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781942401605
  • 1942401604
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.4 23
LOC classification:
  • G369
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Andan�cas 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 / A�gir, Ayg�ul -- 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
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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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.

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 Andan�cas 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 / A�gir, Ayg�ul -- 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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