26 Sep 2002

Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts
Silk Road Seattle, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Self-description: "Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the 'Silk Road' theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. [...] Part of our [...] Project is to make available interesting historical sources which may be used in teaching and learning about the Silk Road. Here is a [...] list of links to texts which have been digitized and posted on the web already."
Site contents: * Chinese accounts [of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East] 91 BCE - 1643 CE; * The Han Histories 206 BCE - 220 CE; * Hou Han shu ('The Western Regions according to the Hou Han Shu'] 25-220 CE; * Ancient Sogdian Letters 313/14 CE; * Faxian (Fa-Hsien) 399-414; * Benjamin of Tudela 1160-1173; * William of Rubruck 1253-1255; * Rabban Bar Sauma 1278-1313; * Francesco Balducci Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook 14th c.; * Pero Tafur 1435-1439 * The Tarikh-i-Rashidi by Mirza Muhammad Haidar 1546-1547 * Memoirs of Babur early 16th c.; * Anthony Jenkinson 1557-1560; * Richard Steel & John Crowther 1615-1616; * Journey of Benedict Goes early 17th c.; * Adam Olearius 1633-1639; * Jean Chardin 1660s-1670s.
URL http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/texts.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: John Hill (wynhill@tpg.com.au), forwarded by trade-routes@mm.isu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30