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Campbell, Mary B., The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing (400-1600), Ithaca, NY - Londres, Comell University Press, 1988, x + 285 pp., il.

Resum

Contents:
* Introduction
* Part 1. The East
- The scriptural East: Egeria, Arculf, and the written pilgrimage
- The fabulous East: "wonder books" and grotesque facts
- The utter East: merchant and missionary travels during the "Mongol peace"
- "That othere half": Mandeville naturalizes the East
* Part 2. The West
- "The end of the East": Columbus discovers paradise
- "Inward feeling": Ralegh and the penetration of the interior
* Epilogue: A brief history of the future

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Notes

Reimpr.: 1991.

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