Shirin A. Khanmohamadi

In Light of Another's Word

European Ethnography in the Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe.

Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781512824810
• ISBN-10: 151282481X
• Artikelnr.: 65831846

Autorenporträt

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi is Professor of Comparative and World Literature at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology
and Its Uses in the Medieval Period
2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald
of Wales
3. Writing Ethnography "In the Eyes of the Other": William of Rubruck's
Mission to Mongolia
4. Casting a "Sideways Glance" at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in
Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis
5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments