LEADER 03718nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781622403321 005 20230421050552.0 010 $a1-283-21172-6 010 $a9786613211729 010 $a0-8122-0226-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202267 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051146 035 $a(OCoLC)748533387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492002 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000545468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11320207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559602 035 $a(PQKB)10353684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441545 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3180 035 $a(DE-B1597)449084 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202267 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492002 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321172 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051146 100 $a19961104d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting East$b[electronic resource] $ethe "travels" of Sir John Mandeville /$fIain Macleod Higgins 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3343-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Here Begins the Book of John Mandeville, Knight -- $t3. ?Chases Estranges? in Constantinople and the Eastern Mediterranean -- $t4. Marvels, Miracles, and Dreams of Re-Expansion in Egypt and the Holy Land -- $t5. Earthly Symmetry and the Mirror of Marvelous Diversity in and Around Ynde -- $t6. Faith and Power in the Great Khan's Cathay and Prester John's Land -- $t7. Personal and Pagan Piety in the Direction of Paradise -- $t8. Having Come to Rest Despite Myself -- $t9. Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWork Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aNo work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other European languages. Ostensibly the account of one English knight's journeys through Africa and Asia, it is, rather, a compilation of travel writings first shaped by an unknown redactor.Writing East is a study of how Mandeville's Travels came to appear in its various versions, explaining how it went through a series of transformations as it reached new audiences in order to serve as both a response to previous writings about the East and an important voice in the medieval conversation about the nature and limits of the world. Higgins offers a palimpsestic reading of this "multi-text" that demonstrates not only how the original French author overwrote his precursors but also how subsequent translators molded the material to serve their own ideological agendas. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGeography, Medieval, in literature 606 $aTravel, Medieval 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGeography, Medieval, in literature. 615 0$aTravel, Medieval. 676 $a910.4 700 $aHiggins$b Iain Macleod$01577758 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781622403321 996 $aWriting East$93856617 997 $aUNINA