Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625

ISBN-13: 9780521526135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 472 str.

Joan-Pau Rubies; Joan-Pau Rubis; Lyndal Roper

Opis

This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. Focusing on European travelers in India and their analysis of Hindu society, politics and religion, it also offers a detailed and systematic study of the variety of travel narratives describing South India from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition, the book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes toward non-Europeans.