In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages

Contents

c on t e n t s Introduction 1 1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period 11 2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales 37 3. Writing Ethnography “In the Eyes of the Other”: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia 57 4. Casting a “Sideways Glance” at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis 88 5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville 113 Conclusion 145 Notes 149 Bibliography 181 Index 195 Acknowledgments 201 This page intentionally left blank ...