The 'book' of travels  genre, ethnology, and pilgrimage, 1250-1700 /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Palmira Brummett. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2009. 
 - xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). 
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions,  v. 140  1573-4188 ; .
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;  v. 140. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : genre, witness, and time in the 'book' of travels /  Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 /  Ruy González de Clavijo's narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand, 1404 /  Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king /  'A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie' : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage /  Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's book of travels /  Afterword : one reader reading /  Palmira Brummett --  Joan-Pau Rubiés --  David J. Roxburgh --  Daniel K. Connolly --  Wes Williams --  Pompa Banerjee --  Mary Baine Campbell. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europeans--Travel--Asia.<br/>Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.<br/>Literary form--History.<br/>Travelers' writings, European--Themes, motives.<br/>Ethnology in literature.<br/>Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.<br/>Intercultural communication in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Description and travel.<br/>Asia--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS6  / .B66 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.04/3