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  1. The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004171657
    Subjects: Geschichte; Cartography; Trade routes; Handelsstraße; Kartografie; Motiv; Geschichte; Kulturkontakt; Historische Geografie; Kunst; Karte; Ikonographie
    Scope: xxxi, 243 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Trade and romance
    Author: Murrin, Michael
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows how these tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the aristocracy, were important to the growing mercantile class as a way to gauge their own experiences in traveling to and trading in these exotic locales. Murrin also looks at the role that growing knowledge of geography played in the writing of the creative literature of the period, tracking how acc

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226071602; 022607160X; 022607157X; 9780226071572
    Subjects: Commerce; Romance-language literature; Trade routes; Romance-language literature; Commerce; Commerce ; Medieval; Literature; Romance-language literature; Trade routes; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: Online Ressource (338 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013)
  3. The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9047424972; 9789047424970
    RVK Categories: RR 10081 ; RR 10217
    Series: Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 21
    Subjects: HISTORY / Historical Geography; Geschichte; Cartography; Trade routes; Handelsstraße; Kartografie; Motiv; Geschichte; Kulturkontakt; Historische Geografie; Kunst; Karte; Ikonographie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 243 pages, [31] pages of plates)
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    One folded plate of col. maps inserted. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index

    Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony