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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.
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