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Author : Sir John Mandeville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Mandeville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, with Three Narratives in Illustration of it written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographical note.--The travels of Sir John Mandeville.--The voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini.--The journal of Friar William de Rubruquis.--The journal of Friar Odoric.
Author : John Mandeville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000713059
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE written by Radhika Seshan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the idea of the ‘east’ emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives — real and imagined — it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and India in particular. From the mythical travels of Prester John to the enigmatic ‘adventures’ of Marco Polo, from the fraught voyages of Johannes Plano de Carpini to the missionary zeal of Friar Odoric of Pordenone and William of Rubruquis, this volume traces the history of the ‘Orient’ as it was understood by the west. A major intervention in understanding how popular narratives shape history, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, medieval history, history of travel, world literature, postcolonial studies, and general readers interested in travel narratives.
Author : Lisa Deam
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630879703
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book A World Transformed written by Lisa Deam and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the edge of medieval maps, monsters roam. In the west, pilgrims take well-traveled roads to Rome and Compostela. In the east, Old Testament history unfolds. And at the center, in the city of Jerusalem, Jesus saves the world. In A World Transformed, Lisa Deam takes us on an incredible journey through medieval maps. Despite their curious appearance, these maps, as Deam shows, are surprisingly modern. In their monstrous, marvelous sights lie treasure troves of wisdom to guide twenty-first-century Christians on their walk with God. Each chapter in this geographical journey links medieval maps to biblical concepts and spiritual practices that transform our faith and our world.
Author : Uranchimeg Tsultemin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824885708
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Monastery on the Move written by Uranchimeg Tsultemin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635–1723), a young descendent of Chinggis Khaan, was proclaimed the new Jebtsundampa ruler of the Khalkha Mongols. Over the next three centuries, the ger (yurt) erected to commemorate this event would become the mobile monastery Ikh Khüree, the political seat of the Jebtsundampas and a major center of Mongolian Buddhism. When the monastery and its surrounding structures were destroyed in the 1930s, they were rebuilt and renamed Ulaanbaatar, the modern-day capital of Mongolia. Based on little-known works of Mongolian Buddhist art and architecture, A Monastery on the Move presents the intricate and colorful history of Ikh Khüree and of Zanabazar, himself an eminent artist. Author Uranchimeg Tsultemin makes the case for a multifaceted understanding of Mongol agency during the Géluk’s political ascendancy and the Qing appropriation of the Mongol concept of dual rulership (shashin tör) as the nominal “Buddhist Government.” In rich conversation with heretofore unpublished textual, archeological, and archival sources (including ritualized oral histories), Uranchimeg argues that the Qing emperors’ “Buddhist Government” was distinctly different from the Mongol vision of sovereignty, which held Zanabazar and his succeeding Jebtsundampa reincarnates to be Mongolia’s rightful rulers. This vision culminated in their independence from the Qing and the establishment of the Jebtsundampa’s theocractic government in 1911. A groundbreaking work, A Monastery on the Move provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis and interpretation of Mongolian Buddhist art and its role in shaping borders and shifting powers in Inner Asia.
Author : Adele Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475163
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The English Renaissance and the Far East written by Adele Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly Sinocentric world, and that as China, in particular, returns to a global center-stage that it last occupied pre-1800, a curious and overlooked synergy exists between the early modern and the present. Prompted by the current eastward tilt in global power, in particular towards China, Adele Lee examines cultural interactions between Britain and the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods. She explores how key encounters with and representations of the Far East are described in early modern writing, and demonstrates how work of that period, particularly Shakespeare, has a special power today to facilitate encounters between Britain and East Asia. Readers will find the past illuminating the present and vice versa in a book that has at its heart resonances between Renaissance and present-day cultural exchanges, and which takes a cyclical, “long-view” of history to offer a new, innovative approach to a subject of contemporary importance.
Author : Aman Y. Nadhiri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317059492
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature written by Aman Y. Nadhiri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Europe: one rooted in the desire to understand the world and one's place in it, and another promoting an ethnocentric narrative. To this end, it examines the construction of an image of the Other for Muslims in the Eastern Mediterranean and for Christians in Western Europe in works of literature, particularly in the works produced in the centuries preceding the Crusades; and it explores the ways in which both Muslim and Christian writers depicted the Enemy in historical accounts of the Crusades. The author focuses on medieval works of ethnography and geography, travel literature, Muslim and Christian accounts of the Crusades, and the romances of Western Europe to trace the evolution of the image of the Eastern Mediterranean Muslim in medieval Western Europe and the Western European Christian in the medieval Muslim world, first to understand the construct in the respective scholarly communities, and then to analyze the ways in which this conception informs subsequent works of non-fiction and fiction (in the Western European context) in which this Muslim or Christian Other plays a prominent role. In its analysis of the medieval Mediterranean Muslim and European Christian approaches to difference, this book interrogates the premises underlying the concept of the Other, challenging formulations of binary opposition such as the West versus Islam/Muslims.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521210287
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, with Three Narratives in Illus. of it written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521085717
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004328610
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Our Dogs, Our Selves written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.
Author : Salima Ikram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316102076
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Salima Ikram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to one of the greatest civilizations of all time – ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egyptian belief systems as well as its subsequent political development, it examines methodology, the history of the discipline of Egyptology, religion, social organization, urban and rural life, and death. It also includes a section on how people of all ranks lived. Lavishly illustrated, with many unusual photographs of rarely seen sites that are seldom illustrated, this volume is suitable for use in introductory-level courses on ancient Egypt. It offers a variety of student-friendly features, including a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of sources for those who wish to further their interest in ancient Egypt.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521085731
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-25 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Author : North Carolina College for Women. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Library Notes written by North Carolina College for Women. Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
