Discovering new worlds : essays on medieval exploration and imagination / edited by Scott D. Westrem.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westrem, Scott D., 1953-

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1436.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Garland medieval casebooks ; v. 2.

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1436. Garland medieval casebooks ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland, 1991.

Contents:

Introduction : "From worlde into worlde" / Scott D. Westrem

"The object of one's gaze" : landscape, writing, and early medieval pilgrimage / Mary B. Campbell

Alexander, biologist : Oriental monstrosities and the Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem / James Romm

Reports of Mongol cannibalism in the thirteenth-century Latin sources : Oriental fact or Western fiction? / Gregory G. Guzman

The Amazons and the end of the world / Vincent DiMarco

Imagining Christendom from Jerusalem to paradise : Asia in Mandeville's Travels / Iain Higgins

The nature of the infidel : the anthropology of the canon lawyers / James Muldoon

Ptolemaic influence on medieval Arab geography : the case study of East Africa / Marina Tolmacheva

Rhetoric and Aristotelian natural philosophy / Laurie Shepard

"Gaainabel Tere" : symbolic appropriation of space and time in Geoffrey of Monmouth and vernacular historical writing / Monika Otter

The geography of escape and topsy-turvy literary genres / Louise O. Vasvari

"Out upon circumference" : discovery in Dante / Peter S. Hawkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-261) and index.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.

Lea Library copy has ms. underlines and a few notes by Dr. Edward Peters.

ISBN:

0815301022

9780815301028

OCLC:

23356480