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	Tobias Gohlis über Das Reisebuch des Ritters John Mandeville
		Nachdem John Mandeville die ganze Welt gesehen hatte, zog er sich zurück auf verlorenes Feld und schrieb.
		Was Mandeville vom Paradies schreibt, entspringt den gleichen Quellen wie das meiste, was er über Länder und Leute, Tiere und Pflanzen kompiliert hat: den antiken Klassikern, die auch schon von Menschen ohne Kopf, von Einfüßlern, die ihr Gehwerkzeug als Sonnenschirm benutzten, von Pferdefüßigen und anderen Monstern zu berichten wussten.
		Mandeville beschrieb die Sehnsuchtsorte seiner Zeit: Jerusalem und das weltliche Paradies des Priesterkönigs Johannes, aber er ging weit darüber hinaus.
	www.togohlis.de /03mandeville.htm (699 words)

	§6. "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville". III. The Beginnings of English Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle ...
		We pass from the tomb of St. John to the story of Ypocras’s daughter turned into a dragon; a circumstantial notice of part Jaffa concludes by describing the iron chains in which Andromeda, a great giant, was bound and imprisoned before Noah’s flood.
		There is the same combination of the genuine with the fabulous, but the fables are bolder: we read of the growth of diamonds and of ants which keep hills of gold dust, of the fountain of youth and the earthly paradise, of valleys of devils and loadstone mountains.
		Mandeville uses impartially the sober Historia Mongolorum of Plano Carpini 10 or the medieval forgeries called The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle and The Letter of Prester John: no compilation of fiction or erudition comes amiss to him.
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	John Mandeville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Albans also had a legend that a ruined marble tomb of Mandeville (represented cross-legged and in armour, with sword and shield) once stood in the abbey; this may be true of "Mangevilayn" or it may be a mere myth.
		Note also that the arms on Mandeville's tomb were borne by the Tyrrells of Hertfordshire (the county in which St Albans lies); for of course the crescent on the lion's breast is only the "difference" indicating a second son.
		Mandeville's travels constituted a wide variety of venues, and it was therefore inevitable that his book would become one of the myriad sources used in Alan Moore's two graphic novels The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Mandeville (3389 words)

	Mandeville, Sir John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many scholars believe that Mandeville was a pseudonym and that the work was written by Jean de Bourgogne (or Jean à la Barbe), physician of Liège, or by Jean d'Outremeuse (1338-1400), citizen of Liège and composer of fabulous history.
		A growing number of scholars, however, contest that the book was composed, as reported in the text, by John Mandeville.
		Biographical details are not wholly clear, but he seems to have been born at St. Albans in the late 13th cent., to have spent the prime of his life on the Continent, and to have completed the book by 1356 as a travel romance, rather than as an authentic account.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mandevilj1.html (383 words)

	John Mandeville Criticism
		In the following excerpt, Zacher presents an overview of Mandeville's Travels, focusing on Mandeville's treatment of the Holy Land, and argues that the work is worth interest because of "its peculiar attitude toward pilgimage and exploration, its intricate sturcture, and its sophisticated point of view.
		The critic contends that the popularity of Mandeville' s Travels demands that the work be given serious attention if scholars want to understand the world view of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
		In the following excerpt, Bennett compares Mandeville's Travels with the account of Odoric of Pordenone's travels, from which Mandeville borrowed extensively, and argues that Mandeville's text is far richer because his imagination and literary skills brought the materials to life.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/John_Mandeville (237 words)

	John Mandeville Summary
		Sir John Mandeville is the pen name used by the unidentified 14th-century English author of one of the most famous and widely read travel romances of Europe--The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight.
		Mandeville's Travels is the modern editorial title of a prose treatise that initially circulated under several medieval titles, most commonly The Book of John Mandeville.
		John Mandeville: Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Mandeville (278 words)

	John Mandeville - Japan
		Mandeville, however, then goes on to say that his eldest son, Melechemader, was chosen to succeed; but this prince was caused privily to be slain by his brother, who took the kingdom under the name of Meleclimadabron.
		Mandeville, again, in some passages shows a correct idea of the form of the earth, and of position in latitude ascertained by observation of the pole star; he knows that there are antipodes, and that if ships were sent on voyages of discovery they might sail round the world.
		Mandeville's travels constituted a wide variety of venues, and it was therefore inevitable that his book would become one of the myriad sources used in Alan Moore's two graphic novels The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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	Bernard de Mandeville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandeville was an early describer of the Division of labour, and Adam Smith makes use of some of his examples.
		Mandeville's ironic paradoxes are interesting mainly as a criticism of the "amiable" idealism of Shaftesbury, and in comparison with the serious egoistic systems of Hobbes and Helvétius.
		It is mere prejudice to deny that Mandeville had considerable philosophic insight; at the same time he was mainly negative or critical, and, as he himself said, he was writing for "the entertainment of people of knowledge and education." He can be said to have removed obstacles for the coming utilitarianism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Mandeville (1545 words)

	Mandeville Press
		Mandeville Press publishes works that offer a contemporary look at the teachings of the Spiritual Heart and the ancient wisdom of Soul transcendence -- becoming aware of oneself as a Soul -- for education and upliftment.
		Mandeville Press features the writings of Dr. John-Roger, a NY Times #1 best-selling author and a lecturer of international stature; Dr. John Morton, internationally recognized educator, counselor and speaker; and Dr. Paul Kaye, internationally known lecturer and humorist.
		Books from Mandeville Press inspire readers to discover and learn to trust their "natural knowing," the small voice that often speaks but is not often heeded.
	www.mandevillepress.org (257 words)

	Amazon.de: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: English Books: Josef Krasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sir John Mandeville was an Early-Renaissance writer of travel tales, similar in style and content to his near-contemporary, Marco Polo.
		Mandeville, on the other hand, came to be seen as a "teller of tall tales," a kind of Baron Munchhausen.
		Mandeville tells of a society in which women often have snakes in their...uh...private parts.
	www.amazon.de /Travels-Sir-John-Mandeville/dp/0807610542 (718 words)

	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
		But Browne's assessment of Mandeville's character is undermined by the fact that Mandeville probably never existed.
		The Travels of Sir John Mandeville described the travels of an English knight who left England around 1322 and journeyed throughout Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Persia, and Turkey.
		The character of Mandeville, as already indicated, was almost certainly fictitious.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /mandeville.html (257 words)

	Amazon.ca: Travels Of Sir John Mandeville: Books: Josef Krasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sir John Mandeville was an Early-Renaissance writer of travel tales similar in content and style to his famous near-contemporary, Marco Polo.
		A considerable portion of Mandeville can be fairly equated to today's Elvis sightings, or to the woman from Ohio who has the spaceman's baby.
		Mandeville tells of a society in which women often have snakes in their...uhm...private parts.
	www.amazon.ca /Travels-John-Mandeville-Josef-Krasa/dp/0807613886 (953 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean de Mandeville
		For the country of the Tatars and China he made use almost word for word of the "Deseriptio orientalium" of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone, and in parts of the "Historia Mongolorum" of the Franciscan John of Plano Carpini.
		Untersuchungen über die Reisebeschreibung des Sir John Mandeville (Breslau, 1840); NICHOLSON in The Academy, 11 Nov., 1876, and 12 February, 1881; NICHOLSON AND YULE in Encycl.
		MANDEVILLE, JEHAN DE; NICHOLSON in The Academy, 12 April, 1884; BOVENSCHEN, Untersuchungen über Johann v.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09587b.htm (660 words)

	The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler by Giles Milton
		Intrigued by the man who was once regarded as the father of English literature, Giles Milton set off in the footsteps of Sir John Mandeville in order to test his amazing claims and to attempt to solve the riddle of the knight.
		Mandeville claimed that his voyage proved for the first time that it was possible to set sail around the world in one direction and return home from the other.
		Mandeville's passion was wine, and he describes the local plonk in almost every country he visits.
	www.2think.org /riddle_knight.shtml (2688 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Livres en anglais: E. C. Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The world of Sir John Mandeville was bounded by fantasy, superstition and dread.
		Sir John Mandeville was one of the intrepid few who ventured beyond, at least according to his own book.
		His account of his adventures first appeared in the late 1400s and became an instant "best-seller." His tales of devils in the Valley Perilous, men with eyes in their shoulders, and ants that filled empty jars on the backs of horses with gold fascinated Europe.
	www.amazon.fr /Travels-Sir-John-Mandeville/dp/1845880757 (353 words)

	Sir John Mandeville rewrites Vermont history
		According to Mandeville, he was the first to cross land to the Orient followed by Marco Polo.
		In fact, Mandeville was the technically the editor of his Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandfather’s book.
		There is Sir John standing at the edge of a lake, at the edge of a precipice, at the entrance to a thick forest, offering food to a bear, defending his stragglers against marauding elephants.
	www.rsbpress.com /resume/JohnMandeville.html (827 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Mandeville on Prester John
		This Emperor Prester John taketh always to his wife the daughter of the great Chan; and the great Chan also, in the same wise, the daughter of Prester John.
		This Emperor Prester John when he goeth into battle against any other lord, he hath no banners borne before him; but he hath three crosses of gold, fine, great and high, full of precious stones, and every of those crosses be set in a chariot, full richly arrayed.
		Beside the isle of Pentexoire, that is the land of Prester John, is a great isle, long and broad, that men clepe Mistorak; and it is in the lordship of Prester John.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/mandeville.html (2853 words)

	Travels of Sir John Mandeville
		But what for the isles, what for the sea, and what for strong rowing, few folk assay for to pass that passage; albeit that men might do it well, that might be of power to dress them thereto, as I have said you before.
		And then come men in returning to an isle that is clept Casson.
		Wherefore, I pray to all the readers and hearers of this book, if it please them, that they would pray to God for me; and I shall pray for them.
	www.romanization.com /books/mandeville/chap34.html (2075 words)

	Amazon.com: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics): Books: John Mandeville,C. W. R. D. Moseley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whatever the case, it is indisputable that he is one of the first modern travel writers, as we have come to know the genre, and that his book was considered authoritative in matters geographical throughout Europe--consulted by Leonardo da Vinci and Christopher Columbus alike.
		Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of the East for several centuries—a work that went on to influence luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and Coleridge.
		Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan’s army and to have journeyed to “the lands beyond”—countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons, and pygmies.
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	AllRefer.com - Sir John Mandeville (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir John Mandeville, English Literature To 1499, Biographies
		Actually it is a skillful compilation from the recorded travels of other people : e.g., Marco Polo, Ordoric of Pordenone, and William of Boldensele : into which Mandeville interpolated extravagant details of medieval lore.
		Many scholars believe that Mandeville was a pseudonym and that the work was written by Jean de Bourgogne (or Jean A la Barbe), physician of LiEge, or by Jean d'Outremeuse (1338–1400), citizen of LiEge and composer of fabulous history.
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	Mandeville Sir John - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mandeville Sir John - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Irving, Sir Henry, professional name of John Henry Brodribb (1838-1905), English actor and theatrical manager, born in Keinton-Mandeville,...
		The subjects of science fiction have been touched upon by fantastic literature since ancient times.
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	History House: The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville: Book Review
		Sir John Mandeville, an English knight, travelled for 34 years in the fourteenth century, made stops all over the Holy Land, said hi to some folks in Asia, and suggested that circumnavigation of the globe should be possible.
		Later pooh-poohed as an entirely fictional account (the stories of man-animal creatures didn't help), Mandeville's writings inspire the author to follow in his footsteps.
		What he finds is an eloquent exploration of the meaning of religion in the middle ages, as well as a fascinating glimpse at how interesting it can be to critically examine historical writings.
	www.historyhouse.com /book/0374249970 (175 words)

	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville - Penguin Classics
		Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies.
		Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate, Mandeville's was widely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspiring writers as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge.
		This intriguing blend of fact, exaggeration and absurdity offers both fascinating insight into and subtle criticism of fourteenth-century conceptions of the world.
	www.penguinclassics.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141441436,00.html (129 words)

	Sir John Mandeville — FactMonster.com
		So Sir John Mandeville has been unjustly called.
		History - History Our oldest historian is the Venerable Bede, who wrote in Latin an Ecclesiastical History of...
		Rose - Rose Sir John Mandeville says- A Jewish maid of Bethlehem (whom Southey names Zillah) was beloved...
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	Sir John Mandeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Welcome to the online home of Sir John Mandeville, the excellent medaeval blues/prog rock experience!!
		Mandeville are rocking all wild live at the Kamikaze Butler night at the Magnet on Thursday 19th August.
		Is now in the final stages of mixing and should be twirling on your cd players soon.
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	Books by John Mandeville, compare prices
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		The Text and Concordances of Escorial Manuscript M.III.7 : Viajes De John of Mandeville
		The Travels of Sir John Mandeville : A Manuscript in the British Library
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	The San Antonio College LitWeb 'Sir John Mandeville' Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another modernized text is that by Malcolm Letts for the Hakluyt Society, two volumes, 1953.
		Josephine Waters Bennett, The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville.
		Malcolm Letts, Sir John Mandeville: The Man and His Book.
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/bailey/mandevil.htm (94 words)

	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - John Mandeville - Penguin Group (USA)
		This rich, fantastical medieval work remains the prototype of the fabulous travel narrative
		This translation by the esteemed C.W.R.D. Moseley conveys the elegant style of the original, making this an intriguing blend of fact and absurdity, and offering wondrous insight into fourteenth-century conceptions of the world.
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