The Status of the Oriental Traveller in Renaissance Venice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20054569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Howard (0000-0002-1401-1398, Wayne State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 29-49 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Re-Orienting the Renaissance (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230523869_2 |
| OpenAlex | W2506301092 |
| ISBN | 9780230523869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Travel lore in its widest sense was an integral part of Venetian culture. Over the centuries, merchant handbooks, ambassadors’ reports and pilgrim chronicles had recorded journeys made in the interests of trade, diplomacy and Christian devotion. Within Venice this body of knowledge circulated freely, orally and in manuscript form, but during the sixteenth century its dissemination was to be transformed by ambitious printing initiatives. A new genre, the printed anthology of travel narratives, gave added authority to geographical information and helped to shape the ways in which travellers were perceived
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Diplomacy · Literature · Narrative · Pilgrim · Political science · The Renaissance · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |