Medieval ethnographies : European perceptions of the world beyond / edited by Joan-Pau Rubiés.
Contributor(s): Rubiés, Joan-Pau
Language: English Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009.Description: xxxviii, 428 p., [15] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780754659556Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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British Museum | Royal Anthropological Institute | Open Shelves | KV [RUB-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | L80784 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: General: The outer world in the Middle Ages, Seymour Phillips; Genre: Towards a cultural history of travel: the emergence of a naturalistic and ethnographic paradigm in the Latin Middle Ages, Joan-Pau Rubies; Barbarians: The image of the barbarian in medieval Europe, W.R. Jones; Climate: Perceptions of hot climate in medieval cosmography and travel literature, I. Metzler; Monsters: Marco Polo and the pictorial tradition of the marvels of the East, Rudolf Wittkower; Virtuous Gentiles: The Indian tradition in Western medieval intellectual history, Thomas Hahn; India: The medieval West and the Indian Ocean: an oneiric horizon, Jacques le Goff; Mongols: William of Rubruck in the Mongol empire: perception and prejudices, Peter Jackson; Celts and Slavs: Gerald's ethnographic achievement, Robert Bartlett; Prester John: Continental drift: Prester John's progress through the Indies, Bernard Hamilton; Marco Polo and Late Medieval Ethnography: Ethnographers in search of an audience, J.K. Hyde; West Africans: Veni, vidi, vici: some 15th-century eyewitness accounts of travel in the African Atlantic before 1492, Peter Russell; Canary Islanders: Neolithic meets medieval: first encounters in the Canary Islands, David Abulafia; Columbus in the Caribbean: travel fact and travel fiction in the voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint; Index.