Traveling Through Text : Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts.

Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the perceptions of their readers by asserting the aut...

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Main Author: Weber, Elka
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781135495725
1135495726
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