"A Day's Journey": Spatial Perceptions and Geographic Imagination in Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels

This study explores the notions of space underlying a famous Hebrew travel account from the twelfth century: Benjamin of Tudela's Sefer masa'ot (Book of travels). Instead of reading it as an eyewitness report documenting the human geography of the medieval world, I seek to understand the &...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Penn Press 2019
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2019, Volume: 109, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-232
Further subjects:B Arabian Peninsula
B medieval travel literature
B China
B Lost Tribes
B hodological paradigm
B Griffin
B Noah's Ark
B Baghdad
B Reconquista Spain
B spatial studies
B Benjamin of Tudela
B Ibn Jubayr
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