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The Travelogues of Buddhist Monks and the Knowledge of the Western Regions during the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries

Religions
In the context of monks traveling westward in search of Buddhist scriptures, their travelogues emerged during the fourth to the sixth centuries as a new channel for producing knowledge about the Western Regions, distinct from official sources.
Kaiyue Zhang
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The Study of Historical Travelogues from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Experiences and New Approaches

Comparative Southeast European Studies
This article explores how Digital Humanities methodologies can be applied to historical travelogues and highlights the potential of these technologies to provide new insights into historical data.
Anna Ananieva
exaly   +2 more sources

Garden Travelogues

Footprint
In this article I introduce the alien view of the traveller, the view from outside, as presented in a number of travel narratives describing the type of the domestic enclosed garden in Nicosia.
Christos Papastergiou
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“Seven Romantics Sailing Away”: Soviet Journalists on the First Cultural Exchange Visit to the US during the Khrushchev “Thaw” [PDF]

Литературный факт, 2023
The article reconstructs the tour across the US made by seven Soviet newsmen in October–November, 1955. Headed by B. Polevoy, they arrived to study “the best of things in American life.” The delegates spent long hours in conversations with Arizona ...
Olga I. Shcherbinina
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Descriptions of the Forests of Slavonia in Travelogues of the Early Modern Age

Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2022
Forest history is a relatively new discipline in Croatian historiography. The scale of exploitation remains the main point of interest for scholars dealing with forest history.
Robert Skenderović
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Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2022
This essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania.
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
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Over-determined image of the West in first Iranian travelogues [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2019
Our concern is with the image of the west in the first Iranian travelogues. How Elements which shape the west image in these travelogues are assembled? Where is their origin? How they interact with each other and were narrated?
A. Heydari, A. Khodaei
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Russian Travelogues about Korea in the Second Half of the 19th Century [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2019
The article is a survey of Russian travelogues about Korea written in the second half of the 19th century (N. Przhevalsky, P. Delotkevich, A. Krasnov, N. Garin- Mikhailovsky, V. Seroshevsky). First “discovered” by Ivan Goncharov, Korea was of interest to
Ekaterina A. Kliuikova
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Cultural aspects in Constantinople in selected testimonials of Venetian and Russian diplomats (XVIII and XIX centuries) [PDF]

Baština, 2023
It is well known that during the 18th and 19th centuries, European ideas and the presence of many foreign envoys in Constantinople enabled Europeans to get better acquainted with the flows of Ottoman culture and civilization.
Antić Maja R., Mitić Marija N.
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Putopisna inskripcija Bosne i bosanskog u 19. stoljeću

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2023
The topic is romantic travelogues with the subject of Bosnia: descriptions and insights into the perceived “reality” of the Bosnian area and people of the19th century presented through linguistic and stylistic means and on examples of selected ...
Remzija Hadžiefendić-Parić, Ramiza Smajić   +1 more
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