The Book of John Mandeville
Edited by Tamarah Kohanski Edited by C. David Benson
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(August 2007)
ISBN: 9781580441131
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The Book of John Mandeville has tended to be neglected by modern teachers and scholars, yet this intriguing and copious work has much to offer the student of medieval literature, history, and culture. [It] was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins. The Book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages: not only Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, but also Czech, Danish, and Irish. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. Chaucer borrowed from it, as did the Gawain-poet in the Middle English Cleanness, and its popularity continued long after the Middle Ages.
Acknowledgements Introduction The Book of John Mandeville Preface Prologue Chapter 1. A Way to Jerusalem Chapter 2. Ageyn to the Way Chapter 3. A Wey by the See to Jerusalem Chapter 4. The Way to Babyloyn Chapter 5. A Wey to Jerusalem Chapter 6. Jerusalem Chapter 7. Environs of Jerusalem Chapter 8. A Way fro Galile to Jerusalem thorgh Damas Chapter 9. The Shortest Way to Jerusalem Chapter 10. Another Way to Jerusalem Chapter 11. A Wey All by Lond to Jerusalem Chapter 12. Truthe of Sarasyns Chapter 13. Dyverseteis of Peple and of Contreis Chapter 14. The Land of Mancy Chapter 15. The Londe of the Gret Cane of Catay Chapter 16. Why He Is Y-cleped the Gret Cane Chapter 17. Aray of the Court of the Gret Chane Chapter 18. The Lond of Pers Chapter 19. The Kyndom of Caldee Chapter 20. The Lond of Prester John Chapter 21. Aray of the Court of Prester John Chapter 22. Why He Is Y-clipedPrester John Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Sources for The Book of John Mandeville Bibliography, Acknowledgements
Introduction
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1. A Way to Jerusalem
Chapter 2. Ageyn to the Way
Chapter 3. A Wey by the See to Jerusalem
Chapter 4. The Way to Babyloyn
Chapter 5. A Wey to Jerusalem
Chapter 6. Jerusalem
Chapter 7. Environs of Jerusalem
Chapter 8. A Way fro Galilé to Jerusalem thorgh Damas
Chapter 9. The Shortest Way to Jerusalem
Chapter 10. Another Way to Jerusalem
Chapter 11. A Wey All by Lond to Jerusalem
Chapter 12. Truthe of Sarasyns
Chapter 13. Dyverseteis of Peple and of Contreis
Chapter 14. The Land of Mancy
Chapter 15. The Londe of the Gret Cane of Catay
Chapter 16. Why He Is Y-cleped the Gret Cane
Chapter 17. Aray of the Court of the Gret Chane
Chapter 18. The Lond of Pers
Chapter 19. The Kyndom of Caldee
Chapter 20. The Lond of Prester John
Chapter 21. Aray of the Court of Prester John
Chapter 22. Why He Is Y-clipedPrester John
Textual Notes
Appendix: Sources for The Book of John Mandeville
Bibliography
Glossary
Indexed Glossary of Proper Names
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