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The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 (Hardcover)
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The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 140
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The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European
genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of
medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel
texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to
question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and
ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature
of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including
imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale,
and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation
of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the
expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces
in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul
court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural
translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude
confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.
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