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1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
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Connected histories in the early modern world |
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Connected histories in the early modern world.
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| 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 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 |
| Summary |
"With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the Renaissance. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. During this period travel, military conquest and trade through the Mediterranean placed Western European citizens and merchants in contact with Islamic and eastern technology and culture, and travel narratives illustrate the converging and pragmatic dynamics of cultural acceptance. Perhaps the spread of ŸRenaissanceŒ values and beliefs might have followed a trajectory the reverse of what is generally assumed, and that salient aspects of Renaissance culture traveled from the fringes of Islamic and eastern cultures to the midst of hegemonically Christian polities."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Eastern travels |
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Muslim-Christian encounters |
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cultural exchange |
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early modern |
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medieval |
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mercantile exchanges |
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renaissance |
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travel writing |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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In English |
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Travel writing -- History -- To 1500
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Travel, Medieval -- History
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Culture diffusion.
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Travel, Medieval.
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cultural diffusion.
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Culture diffusion
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Travel, Medieval
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Travel writing
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piera, Montserrat, editor
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| ISBN |
9781641899499 |
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1641899492 |
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1942401590 |
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9781942401599 |
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9781942401605 |
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1942401604 |
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