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Author Khanmohamadi, Shirin A

Title In light of another's word : European ethnography in the Middle Ages / Shirin A. Khanmohamadi
Edition First edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (211 pages)
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation : The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period -- Subjective Beginnings : Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales -- Writing Ethnography "In the Eyes of the Other" : William of Rubruck's Mission to Mongolia -- Casting a "Sideways Glance" at the Crusades : The Voice of the Other in Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis -- Dis-Orienting the Self : The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville -- Conclusion
Summary Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, this book looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe
Analysis Cultural Studies
History
Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Authors, Medieval -- Attitudes
Civilization, Medieval.
East and West -- History -- To 1500
Ethnology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Travel, Medieval -- History -- Sources
Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval
East and West
Ethnology
Travel, Medieval
Travelers' writings, European
Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812208978
1322513732
9781322513737
9780812208979