Palmira Brummett, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Tenessee. Her work focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter in the Afro-Eurasian oikumene.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsA Note on TranslationNote on Contributors1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa BanerjeeAfterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine CampbellBibliographyIndex

Palmira Brummett, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Tenessee. Her work focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter in the Afro-Eurasian oikumene.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsA Note on TranslationNote on Contributors1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa BanerjeeAfterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine CampbellBibliographyIndex

Palmira Brummett, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of Tenessee. Her work focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural encounter in the Afro-Eurasian oikumene.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsA Note on TranslationNote on Contributors1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa BanerjeeAfterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine CampbellBibliographyIndex