SPAN 6740

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SPAN 6740
Medieval Travel Writing

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

We will read a selection of medieval travel accounts, paying special attention to the ways in which travelers observed, interacted with, and described the people they encountered and the places they visited. Material will include: Buzurg ibn Shahrayar's Wonders of the Indian Ocean, Ibn Fadlan's Mission to the Volga, Evliya Çelebi'sBook of Travels, the anonymous Ottoman History of the New World, and European material including Marco Polo, Sir John Mandeville, and Bartolomeo de las Casas. All material in English and/or Spanish.

When Offered Spring.

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  • 15653 SPAN 6740   SEM 101

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