John Mandeville (1)
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Fotografie: Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
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The voiage and travayle of Syr John Maundeville, knight, with The journall of Frier Odoricus (1928) 24 exemplaren
The travels of Sir John Mandeville, with three narratives in illustration of it: The voyage of Johannes de Plano… 23 exemplaren
The Egerton Version of Mandeville's Travels (Early English Text Society Original Series) (2010) 9 exemplaren
The Bodley version of Mandeville's travels, from Bodleian ms.E.Musaeo 116 with parallel extracts from the Latin textof… (1963) 7 exemplaren
The Book of John Mandeville: An Edition of the Pynson Text With Commentary on the Defective Version (Medieval and… (2001) 4 exemplaren
The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile Kt. 2 exemplaren
Das Reisebuch des Ritters John Mandeville. Ins Neuhochdeutsche übertragen und eingeleitet von G Sollbach. (1989) 2 exemplaren
Viaggi, ovvero Trattato delle cose più meravigliose e più notabili che si trovano al mondo 1 exemplaar
Avant les grandes découvertes, une image de la terre au XIVè siècle : le voyage de Mandeville 1 exemplaar
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in Modern Spelling, with Three Narratives, in… (2010) 1 exemplaar
Sir.John Mandeville’s Voyages in the Orient 1488 1 exemplaar
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The Metrical version of Mandeville's travels: from the unique manuscript in the Coventry Corporation Record Office (1675) — sommige edities — 8 exemplaren
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- If a real person, flourished 1322-1360. May just be a nom de plume.
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It was also interesting to see the "wild tales" presented right next to things that were actually true. The narrative might talk about hippopotami and giraffes one moment, dog-headed men and trees that that produce wooly animals as fruit the next. The takeaway being that ALL these things would have been equally as strange and unbelievable to the contemporary European reader. We are so lucky to be living in an era where it's easy to prove one and disprove the other, but I don't think there's anything intrinsically more sensible about a river horse that is known to pursue and devour people (hippopotamus) as opposed to a dragon, for example.
Beyond just the facts, it is noted that there are some rather subversive themes in the book. The author remarks on the beliefs of other cultures without condemning them, even when they conflict with the Christian orthodoxy of Europe at the time, and sometimes compares European society unfavourably to those he supposedly encounters on his travels, enough that some republishers over the years chose to edit him to make him MORE bigoted.… (meer)