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In Light of Another's Word
2013,2014
Overview
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi'sIn Light of Another's Wordlooks 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. That we can hear the voices of medieval Europe's others in these narratives in spite of such orthodoxies allows us to take full measure of the productive forces of disorientation and destabilization at work on these early ethnographic writers.Poised at the intersection of medieval studies, anthropology, and visual culture,In Light of Another's Wordis an innovative departure from each, extending existing studies of medieval travel writing into the realm of poetics, of ethnographic form into the premodern realm, and of early visual culture into the realm of ethnographic encounter.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
/ Authors, Medieval -- Attitudes
/ East and West -- History -- To 1500
/ Ethnology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
/ Europe
/ History
/ Interdisciplinary-Race Studies
/ Lit Crit-Medieval Literature
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / General
/ Medieval and Renaissance Studies
/ Sources
/ To 1500
/ Travel, Medieval -- History -- Sources
ISBN
0812245628, 9780812245622, 9780812208979, 0812208978
