商品簡介
Six essays from a 2006 symposium on Medieval and Renaissance studies at the University of Tennessee focus on the travel book as an intersection between a specific literary genre and a specific mode of delivering literature. They consider genre, witness, and time; late Medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters 1250-1450; Ruy Gonzalez de Clavigo's narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur's Samarqand in 1404; copying maps by Matthew Paris; dangers, strangers, and friends in a Renaissance pilgrimage; and the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci's book of travels. A battery of color plates is included. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Palmira Brummett, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Tenessee. Her work focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter in the Afro-Eurasian oikumene.
