The Book of John Mandeville - With Related Texts

Informationen zum Autor Iain Macleod Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies! University of Victoria. Klappentext 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 centuryâthis 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. Zusammenfassung Book of John Mandeville

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• Autori: iain Macleod higgins, John/ Higgins Mandeville
• Editore: Hackett Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.03.2011
• EAN: 9780872209350
• ISBN: 978-0-87220-935-0
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Hackett Classics
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni