Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes

Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes

Author: Samuel Purchas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1108079717

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A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.


Mapping the Ottomans

Mapping the Ottomans

Author: Palmira Brummett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107090776

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This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.


Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes

Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes

Author: Samuel Purchas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1108079644

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A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.


From Pilgrimage to History

From Pilgrimage to History

Author: John G. Demaray

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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"In this study, John G. Demaray argues that modern global cultural historicism first arose, not in the eighteenth century as is commonly held, but in the Renaissance, out of the biblical and pilgrimage iconography of the medieval "Book of God's Works.""--BOOK JACKET.


The Man-Eating Myth

The Man-Eating Myth

Author: William Arens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1980-09-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0190281200

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A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.


Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Author: Matthew Dimmock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107032911

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This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.