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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"John Mandeville"”.
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Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
… its time, a historicized approach reveals that Mandeville's project is better understood in terms of his intolerant universalism. I argue that in casting non-Christians as proto-Christians who stand as evidence of Christianity's global spiritual hegemony, the author appropriates and consumes …
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim traveler, Ibn Jubayr. I specifically analyze Baghdad and Jerusalem due to the fact that they represent cities of centrality for …
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Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge
… as well as the travel narrative The Book of John Mandeville, on the other hand, may have been produced within an educated context but were consumed by a diverse cross-section of the reading population. By looking at these four texts together I explore the ways epistemic structures shift from …