Book of John Mandeville With Related Texts

Name: Book of John Mandeville With Related Texts
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ISBN: 9780872209350

ISBN-10: 0872209350

ISBN-13: 9780872209350

Edition: 2011

Authors: Iain Macleod Higgins, Iain Macleod Higgins, Iain Macleod Higgins

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The work now known as Mandeville's Travels- a fictive traveler's account of journeys through the East, both Near and Far- was a late-Medieval bestseller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. The original French version, essentially a synthesis of excerpts from over 1,000 (genuine) travel books, was quickly translated into eleven languages, and over 300 manuscripts have survived. In the process of being so often copied and translated, the "original" text was often altered, sometimes drastically, and the changes introduced by the copyists and translators reveal a wealth of information about the Medieval European mind and its views of the "other."

Book details

List price: $14.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Abbreviations


The Book of John Mandeville



Variants and Versions



The Insular and Continental French Versions



The Interpolated Continental (Liege) Version



Three English Versions



Two German Versions



The Vulgate Latin Version



The Sources of The Book of John Mandeville



William of Boldensele, Book of Certain Regions beyond the Mediterranean (Excerpt)



(Pseudo-)William of Tripoli, Treatise on the State of the Saracens (Excerpt)



Odoric of Pordenone, Account (Excerpt)



How to Mount a Crusade Overseas (Excerpt)



Hay ton of Armenia, Flower of the Histories of the Land of the East (Excerpt)



Contexts and Commentary



A Note on Geography and Cosmology



A Note on the Astrolabe



A Note on the Alphabets



A Note on the Account of the Sultans in Chapter 6



A Note on the Mongol Emperors and Their Early Empire


Works Cited and Select Bibliography


Index of Scriptural and Related Citations in Latin


Select Index of Proper Names