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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Non-fiction --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travel writing --- Travel, Medieval --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Civilization, Medieval --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- E-books --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Eastern travels. --- Muslim-Christian encounters. --- cultural exchange. --- early modern. --- medieval. --- mercantile exchanges. --- renaissance. --- travel writing.