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Author Weber, Elka, 1968-

Title Traveling through text : message and method in late medieval pilgrimage accounts / Elka Weber
Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)
Series Studies in medieval history and culture
Studies in medieval history and culture.
Contents Place -- Text -- Relationship -- Alienation -- Sacred sites
Summary 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 about a place, usually in a sacred text, decide to supplement the reading with the empirical experience of visiting and describing the place, and the creates his own descriptive text. But in writing this
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine
Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine
RELIGION -- Reference.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
Travel
Wallfahrtsbericht
Bedevaarten.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
pèlerin -- récit de voyage -- Moyen-Âge (Bas)
SUBJECT Palestine -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Palästina
Palestina.
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135495794
1135495793
9780203959442
0203959442
1135495726
9781135495725