A knight's legacy : Mandeville and Mandevillian lore in Early Modern England /
The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle-Ages. Translated into many European languages and widely circulating in both manuscript and printed forms, the pseudo English knight's account had a lasting influence on the voyages of di...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Saila: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996651 |
Aurkibidea:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Foreword / Mary Baine Campbell
- Part I: Editions and Receptions
- 1. Mandeville in England: the early years / Michael S. Seymour
- 2. 'Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile': reading the Travels in early modern England / Charles W. R. D. Moseley
- 3. Mandeville reviviscent: early modern travel tales Kenneth Parker
- Part II: Mandevillian Ideologies
- 4. The four rivers of paradise: Mandeville and the Book of Genesis / Leo Carruthers
- 5. Mandeville on Muhammad: texts, contexts and influence / Matthew Dimmock
- 6. A 'science of dreams': 'the fantastic ethnography' of Sir Walter Ralegh and Baconian experimentalism / Line Cottegnies
- Part III: Mandevillian stages
- 7. Marlowe's Tamburlaine: the well-travelled tyrant and some of his unchecked baggage / Richard Hillman
- 8. Prester John writes back: the legend and its early modern reworkings / Ladan Niayesh
- 9. Stage-Mandevilles: the far east and the limits of representation in the theatre, 1621/2002 / Gordon Mcmullan
- 10. The politics of Mandevillian monsters in Richard Brome's The Antipodes / Claire Jowitt
- Index.