Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1647980542
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.
Author : William Godwin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460404912
William Godwin’s Mandeville was described as his best novel by Percy Shelley, who sent a copy to Lord Byron, and it was immediately recognized by its other admirers as a work of unique power. Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative begins with Mandeville’s rescue from the traumatic aftermath of the Ulster Rebellion of 1641 and proceeds through his early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at Winchester school, his constant (and not unjustified) paranoia, and his confinement in an asylum. Mandeville’s final, desperate attempt to prevent his sister’s marriage to his enemy ends with his disfiguration, which also defaces endings based on settlement or reconciliation. The novel’s events have many resonances with Godwin’s own period. The historical appendices offer contemporary reviews, including Shelley’s letter to Godwin praising Mandeville, material explaining the novel’s complex historical background, and contemporary writings on war, madness, and trauma.
Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199600600
In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.
Author : Bernard de Mandeville
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1724
Category :
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Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : Rosemary Tzanaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351920170
The so-called travels of Sir John Mandeville to the Holy Land, India and Cathay were immensely popular throughout Europe during the late medieval period and were translated into nine different languages. This is a detailed study of the audiences of Mandeville's Book, with particular emphasis on its reception in England and France from the time the Book appeared in the 1350s to the mid-16th century. The multiple ways in which audiences interpreted the work, depending on wider social and cultural contexts, are analysed thematically, under the headings of pilgrimage, geography, romance, history and theology, and contrasted with what can be learned of the author's intentions. The book is well-illustrated with images taken from both manuscript and early printed editions: in her study of these and the marginal notes, Rosemary Tzanaki shows their importance for seeing what readers found of interest. Her analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how people in medieval Europe perceived the outside world.
Author : Iain Macleod Higgins
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category :
ISBN : 1603846115
A fictive travelers guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late-medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polos Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation -- the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth century -- this edition of The Book of John Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the work down to the present day. Also included are notes setting the work in its historical and cultural context and selections from related texts, including significant textual variants from William of Boldenseles Book of Certain Regions beyond the Mediterranean and Odoric of Pordenones Relatio.
Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1806
Category : Charity-schools
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Author : Anita R. Campeau
Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613421765
Just North of New Orleans, across Lake Pontchartrain is the beautiful community of Mandeville. It's picturesque homes and roads are matched by its rich history. In their "The History of Mandeville," Anita R. Campeau and Donald J. Sharp provide the reader with a scholarly yet highly informative and enjoyable account of the early days of Mandeville, Louisiana. The book is filled with rare details, images and drawings. A must for any student of history or lover of Louisiana.
Author : Edmundo Balsemão Pires
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319193813
This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action emerge as new, non-intentional effects from the combination of moral opposites, vice and virtue, in such a form that they lose their moral significance. The work of this great writer, philosopher and physician is interwoven with an awareness of the paradoxical nature of modern society and the challenges that this recognition brings to an adequate perspective on the historical world of modernity.
