Remapping travel narratives (1000-1700) :  to the East and back again / 
edited by Montserrat Piera. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Connected histories in the early modern world .
 - Connected histories in the early modern world. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Frontmatter --  CONTENTS --  LIST OF FIGURES --  LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS --  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --  INTRODUCTION: TRAVEL AS EPISTEME--AN INTRODUCTORY JOURNEY /  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 /  Chapter 2. Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts /  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 /  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 /  Chapter 5. The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert's Re- vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile /  Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi'ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts /  Chapter 7. Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle's Travel to Istanbul (1614-1615) /  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) /  Chapter 9. The East- West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza /  Chapter 10. Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier /  Chapter 11. The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) /  Chapter 12. Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit /  SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --  INDEX  Piera, Montserrat --  Gould, Rebecca --  Sorrentino, Janet --  Piera, Montserrat --  Desing, Matthew V. --  Mehdizadeh, Nedda --  Brancaforte, Elio --  Darnault, Sezim Sezer / A�gir, Ayg�ul --  Duque, Adriano --  Kaplan, Gregory B. --  Ryan, Maria Del Pilar --  Dadabhoy, Ambereen --  Schleck, Julia -- 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781942401605 1942401604 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctvfzvm36  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB978890  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019081814  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>To 1500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel writing--History--To 1500.<br/>Travel, Medieval--History.<br/>Culture diffusion.<br/>SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geography.<br/>TRAVEL--Budget.<br/>TRAVEL--Hikes & Walks.<br/>TRAVEL--Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.<br/>TRAVEL--Parks & Campgrounds.<br/>HISTORY--World.<br/>Culture diffusion.<br/>Travel, Medieval.<br/>Travel writing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G369 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.4