Before Orientalism: Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510

Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutra...

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1. Verfasser: Phillips, Kim M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2014]
Schriftenreihe:The Middle Ages Series
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 314 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780812208948
DOI:10.9783/9780812208948

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