Medievalists.net » John Mandeville http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:20:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53019 My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/feed/ 0 Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/worldly-unease-in-late-medieval-european-travel-reports/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/worldly-unease-in-late-medieval-european-travel-reports/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:03:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46549 Comparing the Book of John Mandeville with Jean de Jeanville's Vie Saint Louis and William of Rubruck's Journey, this chapter argues that cosmopolitan perspectives in these texts seem to emerge in spite of rather than because of their contacts with other cultures.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/worldly-unease-in-late-medieval-european-travel-reports/feed/ 0 Mandeville’s Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/03/mandevilles-intolerance-the-contest-for-souls-and-sacred-sites-in-the-travels-of-sir-john-mandeville/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/03/mandevilles-intolerance-the-contest-for-souls-and-sacred-sites-in-the-travels-of-sir-john-mandeville/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:25:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36182 While Chaucer‟s knight has traveled to and fought in Spain, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia Minor, Sir John claims to have visited the entire known world from Constantinople and the Holy Land to the farthest reaches of Asia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/03/mandevilles-intolerance-the-contest-for-souls-and-sacred-sites-in-the-travels-of-sir-john-mandeville/feed/ 0 Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/indecent-bodies-gender-and-the-monstrous-in-medieval-english-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/indecent-bodies-gender-and-the-monstrous-in-medieval-english-literature/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:11:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25785 Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature Oswald, Dana Morgan Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English, (2005) Abstract While Old English literature rarely represents sexualized bodies, and just as rarely represents monsters, Middle English literature teems with bodies that are both sexualized and monstrous. In Old English, sexualized bodies appear in […]

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