Iain macleod higgins (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Book of John Mandeville.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. dj. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Underlining and marginalia in pencil relegated to the first six pages. Else a bright, clean copy.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fictive traveler's 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 Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation--the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth centuryâthis 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.…

Zustand: New. Book of John Mandeville&Uumlber den AutorIain Macleod Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies, University of Victoria.KlappentextrnrnA fictive traveler&aposs guide to the East..

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other European languages. Ostensibly the account of one English knight's journeys through Africa and Asia, it is, rather, a compilation of travel writings first shaped by an unknown redactor. Writing East is a study of how Mandeville's Travels came to appear in its various versions, explaining how it went through a series of transformations as it reached new audiences in order to serve as both a response to previous writings about the East and an important voice in the medieval conversation about the nature and limits of the world. Higgins offers a palimpsestic reading of this 'multi-text' that demonstrates not only how the original French author overwrote his precursors but also how subsequent translators molded the material to serve their own ideological agendas.…

Zustand: New. "A remarkable analysis of an important medieval text. This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the shaping of medieval understanding."-Sixteenth Century Journal Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSB; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 666. . 1997. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 335 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. A remarkable analysis of an important medieval text. This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the shaping of medieval understanding. -Sixteenth Century Journa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Writing East | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | Iain Macleod Higgins | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 1997 | University of Pennsylvania Press | EAN 9780812233438 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …