In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages Khanmohamadi Shirin A.
In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages Khanmohamadi Shirin A. Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. These…
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In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages Khanmohamadi Shirin A.
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. 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 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.
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