Christine Chism
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Chism |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Chism |
| SIGNATURE | CHISM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Ibn Battuta
Starting in 1325, Ibn Battuta set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Taking advantage of the routes opened up by the spread of Islam from one end to the other of the eastern hemisphere, he then travelled twenty-nine years, tracing the contours of Afro Eurasia, from North Africa to the China Sea and back. Ibn Battuta swears early in his journeys to travel the world without ever repeating a single route (2: 283; 191). and he undertook journeys three tim…
Tūdūr Trouble in 1001 Nights
This article presents a case study of the Arabic version of the 1001 Nights story of the enslaved scholarly maiden—found in the thirteenth-century manuscript held at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, Gayangos 71—exploring the tale's immediate translation networks. It argues (1) that translation needs to be viewed as a form of renovation, and (2) that translated premodern texts can both illuminate and be illuminated by twenty-first-centu…
Companion to World Literature
Stranger worlds
Britain and the sea of darkness
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England . Frank Grady
"Malory's "Morte Darthur
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"Malory's "Morte Darthur
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England . Frank Grady
Britain and the sea of darkness
Stranger worlds
Companion to World Literature
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Ibn Battuta
Starting in 1325, Ibn Battuta set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Taking advantage of the routes opened up by the spread of Islam from one end to the other of the eastern hemisphere, he then travelled twenty-nine years, tracing the contours of Afro Eurasia, from North Africa to the China Sea and back. Ibn Battuta swears early in his journeys to travel the world without ever repeating a single route (2: 283; 191). and he undertook journeys three tim…
Tūdūr Trouble in 1001 Nights
This article presents a case study of the Arabic version of the 1001 Nights story of the enslaved scholarly maiden—found in the thirteenth-century manuscript held at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, Gayangos 71—exploring the tale's immediate translation networks. It argues (1) that translation needs to be viewed as a form of renovation, and (2) that translated premodern texts can both illuminate and be illuminated by twenty-first-centu…
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