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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.
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.
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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