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The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon's “Istoria Veneticorum”

The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon's “Istoria Veneticorum” AL-MASĀQ 209 had meaning – and to engage with the ways in which this story of translation was itself trans- lated and changed when transmitted to new contexts. For all the differences between the books – one surveying the theme of territorial belonging across multiple genres, one examining the creation, adaptation and reception of a single anec- dote over the course of a millennium – it is the places where they overlap that are in many ways the most stimulating. Both Antrim and Zadeh present the Islamic world, and its peripheries, as one full of connections – of paths between places, both physical and imaginative. Zadeh describes Ibn Khurdādhbih’s portrait of the world as one criss-crossed by routes along which people (and information) – Muslim scholars, Jewish and Viking traders, ʿAbbāsid postal officials – travelled. Antrim, meanwhile, argues that geographical texts – both administrative and carto- graphic – have an “expectation of interactivity” (88) at their heart; the scholars who composed the former organised their material into routes through regions, meticulously listing travel times between the towns they described, while the map-makers drew both borders and roads, creating coherent regions linked internally and externally by trade routes. Both scholars, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon's “Istoria Veneticorum”

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AL-MASĀQ 209 had meaning – and to engage with the ways in which this story of translation was itself trans- lated and changed when transmitted to new contexts. For all the differences between the books – one surveying the theme of territorial belonging across multiple genres, one examining the creation, adaptation and reception of a single anec- dote over the course of a millennium – it is the places where they overlap that are in many ways the most stimulating. Both...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016 Christopher Heath
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1473-348X
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2016.1198536
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Abstract

AL-MASĀQ 209 had meaning – and to engage with the ways in which this story of translation was itself trans- lated and changed when transmitted to new contexts. For all the differences between the books – one surveying the theme of territorial belonging across multiple genres, one examining the creation, adaptation and reception of a single anec- dote over the course of a millennium – it is the places where they overlap that are in many ways the most stimulating. Both Antrim and Zadeh present the Islamic world, and its peripheries, as one full of connections – of paths between places, both physical and imaginative. Zadeh describes Ibn Khurdādhbih’s portrait of the world as one criss-crossed by routes along which people (and information) – Muslim scholars, Jewish and Viking traders, ʿAbbāsid postal officials – travelled. Antrim, meanwhile, argues that geographical texts – both administrative and carto- graphic – have an “expectation of interactivity” (88) at their heart; the scholars who composed the former organised their material into routes through regions, meticulously listing travel times between the towns they described, while the map-makers drew both borders and roads, creating coherent regions linked internally and externally by trade routes. Both scholars,

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 3, 2016

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