1st Edition
Traveling Through Text Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts
By Elka Weber
Copyright 2005
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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 author's authority. The central paradox of religious travel writing is that the travel writer reads... Read more
1. Place 2. Text 3. Relationship 4. Alienation 5. Sacred Sit
Biography
A graduate of New York University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Elka Weber has taught at a number of universities. She is currently researching travel and notions of place in the writings of medieval Jews. She recently contributed a chapter, Sharing the Sites: Medieval Jewish Travelers to the Land of Israel to Rosamund Allen, ed, Eastward Bound: travel and travellers 1050-1550, , 2004.
