Travels and travelogues in the middle ages
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Travels and travelogues in the middle ages
（AMS studies in the Middle Ages, no. 28）
AMS Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The interdisciplinary and international affiliations of the contributors to "Travels and Travelogues in the Middle Ages" correspond to the collection's eclectic approach to the field of medieval travel literature. The sampling of travelers and authors studied herein include Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenome, Margery Kempe, and Benedict of Poland; lands visited and imagined in their works range from Italy to Song dynasty China, from Mongolia to the Arabian desert, and even to the fictional realm of hell as it was imagined in the Middle Ages. The multiplicity of terrains, both literary and geographic, covered in this volume draw upon medieval and current concepts of iconography, ethnography, and the relation of self to other, conveying a broad cultural-historical critical sensibility that will appeal to scholars of medieval religion, philosophical, literature, and art history.
Table of Contents
- I. Composition, Rewriting, Translations, and Iconographical Representation of Medieval Travelogues
- Jean-Francois Kosta-Thefaine, Introduction
- Ana Pinto, "Mandeville's Travels: A 'Rihla' in Disguise"
- Marianne O'Doherty, "They are like beasts, for they have no law: Ethnography and Constructions of Human Difference in Late Medieval Translations of Marco Polo's Book" Richard Maber and Angela Tregoning, "Conveying the Unimaginable: Odoric of Pordenone's Travels and Their Vernacular Translations"
- Jean-Francois Kosta-Thefaine, "The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.723: Illustrations of Hayton's La Fleur des Histoires d'Orient"
- II. Dicovery of the Other - Discovery of the Elsewhere
- Christopher Roman, "Margery Kempe and Italy: Sacred Space and the Community in Her Soul"
- Katrin Rupp, "Stairway to Hell: Infernal Journeys in Some Old and Middle English Texts" Ellen Cong Zhang, "Sites, Places, and the Empire: Ly You's Travel on the Yangzi River in Southern Song China"
- III. Travels in Literary Texts
- Adriano Duque, "The Text as Map: Benedict the Pole's Account of the Carpine Mission to Mongolia (1246-1247)"
- Wisam Mansour, "Desert Traveling in al-Shanfara's Lamiyyatu'l Arab".
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