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The witness and the other world : exotic European travel writing, 400-1600 / Mary B. Campbell
Bib ID 437922
Format BookBook
Author
Campbell, Mary B., 1954-
 
Description Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988 
x, 283 p. : ill., map. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0801421373 (alk. paper)  080149933X 
Full contents
  • pt. 1. The East: The scriptural East: Egeria, Arculf, and the written pilgrimage
  • The fabulous East: "wonder books" and grotesque facts
  • The utter East: merchant and missionary travels during the "Mongol peace"
  • "That othere half": Mandeville naturalizes the East
  • pt. 2. The West: "The end of the East": Columbus discovers paradise
  • "Inward feeling": Ralegh and the penetration of the interior
  • Epilogue: A brief history of the future.
 
Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 267-278.

Subjects Geography, Medieval.  |  Literature, Medieval - History and criticism.  |  European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism.  |  Europeans - Foreign countries - History.  |  Difference (Psychology) in literature.  |  Exoticism in literature.  |  Travel in literature.  |  Voyages and travels.

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