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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The work now known as Mandeville's Travelsa fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Farwas a late-Medieval bestseller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. The original French version, a creative synthesis of some three dozen other works including 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 of John Mandeville Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. 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.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The work now known as Mandeville's Travelsa fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Farwas a late-Medieval bestseller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. The original French version, a creative synthesis of some three dozen other works including 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 of John Mandeville Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condition: New. 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.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Underlining and marginalia in pencil relegated to the first six pages. Else a bright, clean copy.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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 centuryâthis 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The work now known as Mandeville's Travelsa fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Farwas a late-Medieval bestseller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. The original French version, a creative synthesis of some three dozen other works including 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 of John Mandeville Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The work now known as Mandeville's Travelsa fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Farwas a late-Medieval bestseller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. The original French version, a creative synthesis of some three dozen other works including 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 of John Mandeville Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. Book of John Mandeville&Uumlber den AutorIain Macleod Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies, University of Victoria.KlappentextrnrnA fictive traveler&aposs guide to the East..

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Hardback. Condition: New. No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other European languages. Ostensibly the account of one English knight's journeys through Africa and Asia, it is, rather, a compilation of travel writings first shaped by an unknown redactor. Writing East is a study of how Mandeville's Travels came to appear in its various versions, explaining how it went through a series of transformations as it reached new audiences in order to serve as both a response to previous writings about the East and an important voice in the medieval conversation about the nature and limits of the world. Higgins offers a palimpsestic reading of this "multi-text" that demonstrates not only how the original French author overwrote his precursors but also how subsequent translators molded the material to serve their own ideological agendas.…

Hardback. Condition: New. No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other European languages. Ostensibly the account of one English knight's journeys through Africa and Asia, it is, rather, a compilation of travel writings first shaped by an unknown redactor. Writing East is a study of how Mandeville's Travels came to appear in its various versions, explaining how it went through a series of transformations as it reached new audiences in order to serve as both a response to previous writings about the East and an important voice in the medieval conversation about the nature and limits of the world. Higgins offers a palimpsestic reading of this "multi-text" that demonstrates not only how the original French author overwrote his precursors but also how subsequent translators molded the material to serve their own ideological agendas.…

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