Brummett Palmira (ed.). The ‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009. — 329 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 140).Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels
Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250–1450
Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404
Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King
‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage
Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels
Afterword: One Reader Reading