Medieval ethnographies : European perceptions of the world beyond
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書誌事項
Medieval ethnographies : European perceptions of the world beyond
(The expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500, v. 9)
Ashgate, c2009
大学図書館所蔵 全9件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. From a a global perspective what is most distinctive of Europe is the genre's long-term impact rather than its mere empirical potential, or its ethnocentrism (all of which can also be found in China and in Islamic cultures). Hence what needs emphasizing is the multiplication of original writings over time, their increased circulation, and their authoritative status as a 'scientific' discourse. The empirical bent was more characteristic of travel accounts than of theological disputations - in fact, the less elaborate the theological discourse, the stronger the ethnographic impulse (although many travel writers were clerics). This anthology of classic articles in the history of medieval ethnographies illustrates this theme with reference to the contexts and genres of travel writing, the transformation of enduring myths (ranging from oriental marvels to the virtuous ascetics of India or Prester John), the practical expression of particular encounters from the Mongols to the Atlantic, and the various attempts to explain cultural differences, either through the concept of barbarism, or through geography and climate.
目次
- 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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