Voyager from Xanadu : Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West
Morris. Rossabi
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (249 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Voyager from Xanadu; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Illustrations; Preface to the 2010 Edition; Preface to the First Edition; A Note on Transliteration; Principal Figures; 1. Setting the Stage; 2. A Pilgrimage to the West; 3. The Mongols, the Muslims, and the Europeans; 4. An Embassy to the West; 5. Paris, Bordeaux, Rome, and Return; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR. - Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad-the first traveler to arrive from China-Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulfilled because of Islamic control of the Holy Land. In Voyager from Xanadu, Morris Rossabi traces Sauma's trans-Eurasian travels against the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. His indispensable book
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| Emner | Rabban Ṣàumâ : (NO-TrBIB)90331609
Den Nestorianske kirke : (NO-TrBIB)98070592 Diplomats - Travel - China Ṣâumā, Rabban, -1293? -- Travel. Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 9780520262379
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