Literary Criticism

Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Die Reihe 'Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte' bietet ein interdisziplinäres Forum für hochwertige, thematisch fokussierte Sammel- und Konferenzbände und mediävistische Monographien.

Author: Ingrid Baumgärtner

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110588774

Category: Literary Criticism

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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

2019-03-042019-03-04

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Mediterranean Region

Mobility and Travel in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

The Mediterranean in the High Middle Ages : Area of Unity or Diversity ? Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum Volker Scior Nowadays , the relationship between the topic ' mobility and travel ' and the region that is called ' the ...

Author: Renate Schlesier

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

ISBN: 3825867552

Category: Mediterranean Region

Page: 140

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The Mediterranean world is a model that serves the analysis of the dynamic process of cultural identity through approximation and differentiation, through openness and self-assertion, through a constant contact - by way of travel - to foreign regions, cultures and societies. For ancient Greek culture, mobility seems to be a specific characteristic. The same can be said for the Christian, Judaic and Islamic Middle Ages, however, under different or changed circumstances. This publication presents the contributions to an international workshop in cultural analysis, which focused on mobility as a proof of the historical flexibility of Mediterranean cultural systems.

20042004

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History

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

The range of original sources from Islamic civilization is stunning, including medieval litterateurs from jl-Ja-hiz to al-Blrunl to Ibn Khallikan. Travel as both experience and metaphor, practice and trope, is illumined here by Touati ...

Author: Houari Touati

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226808772

Category: History

Page: 321

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In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.

2010-082010-08

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History

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Author: Arthur Newton

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136203855

Category: History

Page: 252

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Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

2013-11-052013-11-05

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History

Trade Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Hindle, B.P. “The Road Network of Medieval England and Wales.” journal of Historical Geography 3 (1976): 207— 221. . “Seasonal Variations in Travel in Medieval England.” journal ofTransport History, n.s., 4 (1977—1978): 170—178.

Author: John Block Friedman

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135590949

Category: History

Page: 756

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Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

2013-07-042013-07-04

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History

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Religion thus came in to stir up any latent desire there might be for travel, and that to a still greater extent than was the case in medieval Christendom, because the Muhammadan pilgrimage to Mecca was not regarded, ...

Author: Arthur Newton

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136203787

Category: History

Page: 244

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Originally published between 1920 and 1970,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

2013-11-052013-11-05

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History

Travel Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

1 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 While this volume focuses on travel and religion in Western Europe, ... 7 One of the profound studies on the practicalities of travel in the Middle Ages is Newman 2011.

Author: Jenni Kuuliala

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429647703

Category: History

Page: 318

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Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a phenomenon of vital importance.

2019-10-292019-10-29

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History

Travel Time and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Travel: Translation. Genres. and. Knowledge-Making. in. the. Medieval. Arabic. Translation. Movement. Some of the known stories about texts travelling in time and space include references to how the famous library of Alexandria acquired ...

Author: Albrecht Classen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110610963

Category: History

Page: 723

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Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists' employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis).

2018-10-222018-10-22

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History

Routledge Revivals Trade Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages 2000

Though the country's economic role in Europe was well established, by the mid-twelfth century, relatively weak Hungarian rulers ... During his reign Hungarian currency remained strong; he was one of the wealthiest monarchs of his age.

Author: John Block Friedman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781351661324

Category: History

Page: 758

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First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.

2017-07-052017-07-05

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