Russian Travelers to the Christian East from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century : Signed
124: Slavica Publishers, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Text in English. 925 pp.
This excellent, annotated bibliography belongs in the reference collection of every major searc library. Including over 1,550 entries, it is herculean in its geographic, chronological, and authorian corange and stunning in its scholarship. Geogrpahically, the Christian East refers here to those areas associated in Russian thinking with the origins of Christianity, Orthodox culture, and georaphic jurisdiction of the partiachetes of Contantinople, Greece, Anatolia, The Fertile Crescent, Palestine, Egypt, Abyssinia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania. Chronologically, itspans more than eight centuries (1106-1914), and it encompasses travel accounts by pilgrims, merchants, diplomats, military officers, scholars, and dilettantes. Near Fine. Item #6837
ISBN: 0893571571
Price: $150.00