Viajes y viajeros en la Europa medieval - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viajes y viajeros en la Europa medieval write by Joaquín M. Córdoba Zoilo. This book was released on 2007. Viajes y viajeros en la Europa medieval available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003) write by E Michael Gerli. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2003, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, is the first comprehensive reference to the vital world of medieval Spain. This unique volume focuses on the Iberian kingdoms from the fall of the Roman Empire to the aftermath of the Reconquista and encompass topics of key relevance to medieval Iberia, including people, events, works, and institutions, as well as interdisciplinary coverage of literature, language, history, arts, folklore, religion, and science. It also provides in-depth discussions of the rich contributions of Muslim and Jewish cultures, and offers useful insights into their interactions with Catholic Spain. With nearly 1,000 signed A-Z entries and written by renowned specialists in the field, this comprehensive work is an invaluable tool for students, scholars, and general readers alike.
Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume I
Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume I write by Boris Stojkovski. This book was released on 2020-12-31. Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.
Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices
Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices write by David Abulafia. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction?
Medieval Ethnographies
Medieval Ethnographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Ethnographies write by Joan-Pau Rubies. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Medieval Ethnographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. From a a global perspective what is most distinctive of Europe is the genre's long-term impact rather than its mere empirical potential, or its ethnocentrism (all of which can also be found in China and in Islamic cultures). Hence what needs emphasizing is the multiplication of original writings over time, their increased circulation, and their authoritative status as a 'scientific' discourse. The empirical bent was more characteristic of travel accounts than of theological disputations - in fact, the less elaborate the theological discourse, the stronger the ethnographic impulse (although many travel writers were clerics). This anthology of classic articles in the history of medieval ethnographies illustrates this theme with reference to the contexts and genres of travel writing, the transformation of enduring myths (ranging from oriental marvels to the virtuous ascetics of India or Prester John), the practical expression of particular encounters from the Mongols to the Atlantic, and the various attempts to explain cultural differences, either through the concept of barbarism, or through geography and climate.
