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Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 (Hardcover)
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Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 (Hardcover)
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The literature of medieval knighthood is shown to have influenced
exploration narratives from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith.
Explorers from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith viewed their
travels and discoveries in the light of attitudes they absorbed
from the literature of medieval knighthood. Their own accounts, and
contemporary narratives [reinforced by the interest of early
printers], reveal this interplay, but historians of exploration on
the one hand, and of chivalry on the other, have largely ignored
this cultural connection. Jennifer Goodman convincingly develops
the ideaof the chivalric romance as an imaginative literature of
travel; she traces the publication of medieval chivalric texts
alongside exploration narratives throughout the later middle ages
and renaissance, and reveals parallel themesand preoccupations. She
illustrates this with the histories of a sequence of explorers and
their links with chivalry, from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith,
and including Gadifer de la Salle and his expedition to the Canary
Islands, Prince Henry the Navigator, Cortes, Hakluyt, and Sir
Walter Raleigh. JENNIFER GOODMAN teaches at Texas A & M
University.
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