Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index
Introduction : genre, witness, and time in the ’book’ of travels / Palmira Brummett -- Late medieval ambassadors and the practice of cross-cultural encounters, 1250-1450 / Joan-Pau Rubies -- Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo’s narrative of courtly life and ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404 / David J. Roxburgh -- Copying maps by Matthew Paris : itineraries fit for a king / Daniel K. Connolly -- ’A mirrour of mis-haps, a mappe of miserie’ : dangers, strangers, and friends in Renaissance pilgrimage / Wes Williams -- Postcards from the harem : the cultural translation of Niccolao Manucci’s book of travels / Pompa Banerjee -- Afterword : one reader reading / Mary Baine Campbell.
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