Book of Marvels and Travels

Zusatztext Bale shows a lightness of touch in translation, which remains close to the syntax of the Middle English while avoiding archaism Bale's introduction offers a pithy and elegant overview of current scholarship on the nature of the text. Informationen zum Autor Anthony Bale studied at the universities of Oxford and York and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Anglo-Jewish history, the poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate, the cult of St Edmund and fifteenth-century literature. His most recent book is Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2010). Klappentext In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview. Zusammenfassung In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Bale, John Mandeville, Sir John Mandeville, Mandeville John
• Assisted by: Anthony Bale (Translation), Bale Anthony (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780199600601
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960060-1
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), Weltreise : Berichte, Erinnerungen, History, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Interfaith relations, c 500 to c 1000 CE