Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700

To the East and Back Again
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-942401-59-9
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World

With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the "Renaissance."  Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piera, Montserrat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: “Travel as episteme: An Introductory Journey” by Montserrat Piera
Part I. Transforming the rihla tradition: The Search for Knowledge in Jewish, Muslim and Christian Travelers
1: From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani’s Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage by Rebecca Gould
2: Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts by Janet Sorrentino
3: Vulnerable Iberian Travelers: Benjamin of Tudela’s Sefer ha-Massa’ot, Pero Tafur’s Andanças e viajes and Ahmad al-Wazzan’s Geography of Africa by Montserrat Piera
Part II. Imagining the East: Egypt, Persia and Istanbul in my mind
4: ‘Tierras de Egipto’: Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia by Matthew V. Desing
5: The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert’s re-vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile by Nedda Mehdizadeh
6: Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi’ite Rituals in Safavid Iran from Early Modern European Travel Accounts by Elio Brancaforte
7: Visions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle’s Travel to Constantinople by Sezim Sezer Darnault and Aygül Agir
Part III: To the East and Back: Exchanging Objects, Ideas and Texts
8: Gift-giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246–1248 AD) by Adriano Duque
9: The East-West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza by Gregory B. Kaplan
10: Piety and Piracy: Repatriating the Arm of St. Francis Xavier by Pilar Ryan
11: The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) by Ambereen Dadabhoy
12: Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit by Julia Schleck
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Piera, Montserrat
Montserrat Piera is Associate Professor of Medieval Spanish at Temple University. She has published on a wide range of topics from chivalry texts to early modern women writers.