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Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports

January 11, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville. Created 1459.

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.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Europe, Jean de Joinville, John Mandeville, Late Middle Ages, Latin, Middle English, Mongols, Old French, Scandinavia, Seventh Crusade, Social History, Travel, Vie de Saint Louis, William of Rubruck

Normative Inculturation? A Thirteenth–Century Example of the Middle Ground in Relations between the Latin Church and the Church of the East

August 9, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Normative Inculturation? A Thirteenth–Century Example of the Middle Ground in Relations between the Latin Church and the Church of the East By A. J. Watson Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Issue 5 (2011) Introduction: This paper looks at two thirteenth century accounts, the Itinerarium by the Franciscan William of Rubruck and the Syriac Church of the […]

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Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500]

April 10, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David, Sumithra J. PhD Thesis, University of St. Andrews, 4th March (2008) Abstract In this study the manuscript transmission, dissemination and reception of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica (TH) and William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium […]