The Book Of John Mandeville

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041983650

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The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville Pdf

"Embark on a medieval odyssey with 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.' This captivating work, believed to be a fictional travel narrative written in the 14th century, presents the adventures of an English knight as he journeys through distant lands. As Sir John Mandeville encounters mythical creatures, explores exotic cultures, and narrates fantastical tales, this literary travelogue offers readers a glimpse into the medieval imagination and the curiosity that fueled exploration during that era. Join Sir John Mandeville on this literary voyage where each page unfolds a new marvel, making 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville' an essential read for those fascinated by medieval literature and the early spirit of exploration."

Author : C David Benson,Tamarah Kohanski
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580444378

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The Book of John Mandeville by C David Benson,Tamarah Kohanski Pdf

The Book of John Mandeville has tended to be neglected by modern teachers and scholars, yet this intriguing and copious work has much to offer the student of medieval literature, history, and culture. [It] was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins. The Book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages: not only Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, but also Czech, Danish, and Irish. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. Chaucer borrowed from it, as did the Gawain-poet in the Middle English Cleanness, and its popularity continued long after the Middle Ages.

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780191629105

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The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville Pdf

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince Prester John. There are giants and pygmies, cannibals and Amazons, headless humans and people with a single foot so huge it can shield them from the sun . Forceful and opinionated, the narrator is by turns bossy, learned, playful, and moralizing, with an endless curiosity about different cultures. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary travel narrative that offers some revealing and unexpected attitudes towards other races and religions. It was immensely popular, and numbered among its readers Chaucer, Columbus, and Thomas More. Anthony Bale's new translation emphasizes the book's readability, and his introduction and notes bring us closer to Mandeville's medieval worldview. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Iain Macleod Higgins
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781603846110

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The Book of John Mandeville by Iain Macleod Higgins Pdf

A fictive travelers guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late-medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polos Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation -- the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth century -- this edition of The Book of John Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the work down to the present day. Also included are notes setting the work in its historical and cultural context and selections from related texts, including significant textual variants from William of Boldenseles Book of Certain Regions beyond the Mediterranean and Odoric of Pordenones Relatio.

Author : Rosemary Tzanaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351920179

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Mandeville's Medieval Audiences by Rosemary Tzanaki Pdf

The so-called travels of Sir John Mandeville to the Holy Land, India and Cathay were immensely popular throughout Europe during the late medieval period and were translated into nine different languages. This is a detailed study of the audiences of Mandeville's Book, with particular emphasis on its reception in England and France from the time the Book appeared in the 1350s to the mid-16th century. The multiple ways in which audiences interpreted the work, depending on wider social and cultural contexts, are analysed thematically, under the headings of pilgrimage, geography, romance, history and theology, and contrasted with what can be learned of the author's intentions. The book is well-illustrated with images taken from both manuscript and early printed editions: in her study of these and the marginal notes, Rosemary Tzanaki shows their importance for seeing what readers found of interest. Her analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how people in medieval Europe perceived the outside world.

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444759969

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The Riddle and the Knight by Giles Milton Pdf

In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well. His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most important book of the Middle Ages as Mandeville claimed his voyage proved it was possible to circumnavigate the globe. In the nineteenth century sceptics questioned his voyage, and even doubted he had left England. The Riddle and the Knight sets out to discover whether Mandeville really could have made his voyage or whether, as is claimed, THE TRAVELS was a work of imaginative fiction. Bestselling historian Giles Milton unearths clues about the journey and reveals that THE TRAVELS is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.

Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9354034985

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647980542

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville Pdf

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.

Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822353676

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How Soon Is Now? by Carolyn Dinshaw Pdf

In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.

Author : Bernard de Mandeville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1724
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10041218

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The fable of the Bees by Bernard de Mandeville Pdf

Author : Ibn Fadlan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141975047

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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan Pdf

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.

Author : Daniel Spoerri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cooking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038162579

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The Mythological Travels of a Modern Sir John Mandeville by Daniel Spoerri Pdf

Author : Ladan Niayesh
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719081750

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A Knight's Legacy by Ladan Niayesh Pdf

The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages. Translated into many European languages and widely circulating in both manuscript and printed forms, the pseudo English knight’s account had a lasting influence on the voyages of discovery and durably affected Europe’s perception of exotic lands and peoples. The early modern period witnessed the slow erosion of Mandeville’s prestige as an authority and the gradual development of new responses to his book. Some still supported the account’s general claim to authenticity while questioning details here and there, and some openly denounced it as a hoax. After considering the general issues of edition and reception of Mandeville in an opening section, the volume moves on to explore theological and epistemological concerns in a second section, before tackling literary and dramatic reworkings in a final section. Examining in detail a diverse range of texts and issues, these essays ultimately bear witness to the complexity of early modern engagements with a late medieval legacy which Mandeville emblematizes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603846011

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The Book of John Mandeville by Anonim Pdf

A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation--the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth century—this edition of The Book of John Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the work down to the present day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Animals
ISBN : UCSC:32106005890592

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Physiologus by Anonim Pdf

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus "contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching.a Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins, history, and literary value of this curious text, this volume also reproduces twenty woodcuts from the 1587 version. Originally composed in the fourth century in Greek, and translated into dozens of versions through the centuries, "Physiologus "will delight readers with its ancient tales of ant-lions, centaurs, and hedgehogsOCoand their allegorical significance. OC An elegant little book . . . still diverting to look at today. . . . The woodcuts reproduced from the 1587 Rome edition are alone worth the price of the book.OCOOCoRaymond A. Sokolov, "New York Times Book Review""