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In light of another's word : European ethnography in the Middle Ages
- Title
- In light of another's word : European ethnography in the Middle Ages / Shirin A. Khanmohamadi.
- Author
- Khanmohamadi, Shirin A.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
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- Description
- 202 pages : 1 illustration; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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. These authors - William of Rubruck among the Mongols, "John Mandeville" cataloguing the world's diverse wonders, Geraldus Cambrensis describing the manners of the twelfth-century Welsh, and Jean de Joinville in his account of the various Saracens encountered on the Seventh Crusade-display an uncanny ability to see and understand from the perspective of the very strangers who are their subjects. Khanmohamadi elaborates on a distinctive late medieval ethnographic poetics marked by both a profound openness to alternative perspectives and voices and a sense of the formidable threat of such openness to Europe's governing religious and cultural orthodoxies.
- Series Statement
- The Middle Ages series
- Uniform Title
- Middle Ages series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Conquest, conversion, crusade, salvation : the discourse of anthropology and its uses in the medieval period -- Subjective beginnings : autoethnography and the partial gazes of Gerald of Wales -- Writing ethnography "in the eyes of the other" : William of Rubruck's mission to Mongolia -- Casting a "sideways glance" at the Crusades : the voice of the other in Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis -- Dis-orienting the self : the uncanny Travels of John Mandeville -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-2138
- ISBN
- 9780812245622 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812245628 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780812208979 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013026522
- OCLC
- 842880474
- Author
- Khanmohamadi, Shirin A., author.
- Title
- In light of another's word : European ethnography in the Middle Ages / Shirin A. Khanmohamadi.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Middle Ages seriesMiddle Ages series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-2138