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Writing East - The "Travels" of Sir John Mandeville (Hardcover, New): Iain Macleod Higgins Writing East - The "Travels" of Sir John Mandeville (Hardcover, New)
Iain Macleod Higgins
R1,756 R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Save R259 (15%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Book of John Mandeville - with Related Texts (Paperback): Iain Macleod Higgins The Book of John Mandeville - with Related Texts (Paperback)
Iain Macleod Higgins
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 centuryathis 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.

The Book of John Mandeville - with Related Texts (Hardcover): Iain Macleod Higgins The Book of John Mandeville - with Related Texts (Hardcover)
Iain Macleod Higgins
R1,182 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R120 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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