Medieval Ethnographies

Medieval Ethnographies

European Perceptions of the World Beyond

Rubies, Joan-Pau

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2009

466

Dura

Inglês

9780754659556

15 a 20 dias

1111

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Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Contexts and Genres: The outer world in the European Middle Ages, Seymour Phillips; The emergence of a naturalistic and ethnographic paradigm in late medieval travel writing, Joan-Pau Rubies; Ethnographers in search of an audience, J.K. Hyde. Part 2 Myths: Continental drift: Prester John's progress through the Indies, Bernard Hamilton; The medieval West and the Indian Ocean: an oneiric horizon, Jacques Le Goff; Marco Polo and the pictorial tradition of the marvels of the East, Rudolf Wittkower; The Indian tradition in Western medieval intellectual history, Thomas Hahn. Part 3 Encounters: Gerald's ethnographic achievement, Robert Bartlett; William of Rubruck in the Mongol empire: perception and prejudices, Peter Jackson; Neolithic meets medieval: first encounters in the Canary Islands, David Abulafia; Veni, vidi, vici: some 15th-century eyewitness accounts of travel in the African Atlantic before 1492, Peter Russell; Travel fact and travel fiction in the voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint. Part 4 Explaining Cultural Differences: The image of the barbarian in medieval Europe, W.R. Jones; Perceptions of hot climate in medieval cosmography and travel literature, Irina Metzler; Index.
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Giovanni Di Piano Carpini;marco;Topographia Hibernica;polo;James III;monstrous;Young Man;races;Ystoria Mongalorum;Seymour Phillips;Descriptio Kambriae;Joan-Pau Rubies;Monstrous Races;J.K. Hyde;Antoine De La Sale;Bernard Hamilton;Marco Polo;Jacques Le Goff;Marco Polo's Description;Rudolf Wittkower;De Canaria;Thomas Hahn;Ca Da Mosto;Robert Bartlett;Epistola Alexandri;Peter Jackson;Imago Mundi;David Abulafia;Henry III;Peter Russell;Mappae Mundi;Valerie I.J. Flint;Alexander Legend;W.R. Jones;Jacques De Vitry;Irina Metzler;Gran Canaria;Pope Pius II;Pope Alexander III;Dragon's Blood;Alexander III;Arnold Von Harff;Marco Polo's Book