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	§6. "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville". III. The Beginnings of English Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /212/0306.html (548 words)

	John Mandeville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mandeville, whilst swelling the wonders of the tale with a variety of extravagant touches, appears to safeguard himself from the reader's possible discovery that it was stolen by the interpolation: "And some of our fellows accorded to enter, and some not.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_John_Mandeville (3180 words)

	JEHAN DE MANDEVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on JEHAN DE MANDEVILLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MANDEVILLE, JEHAN DE ("Sir John Mandeville"), the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of travels, written in French, and published between 1357 and 1371.
		In any case it is clear that the name de Mandeville might be suggested to de Bourgogne by that of his fellow-culprit Mangevilayn, and it is even possible that the two fled to England together, were in Egypt together, met again at Liege, and shared in the compilation of the Travels.
		Mandeville, however, then goes on to say that his eldest son, Melec/zemader, was chosen to succeed; but this prince was caused privily to be slain by his brother, who took the kingdom under the name of Melec/imadabron.
	9.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANDEVILLE_JEHAN_DE.htm (3445 words)

	Mandeville, Sir John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.bartleby.com /65/ma/MandevilJ.html (262 words)

	The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler by Giles Milton
		What Sir John achieved in writing his Travels is far more important than the question of whether he himself went on his voyage.
		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)

	John Mandeville, Sir Biography / Biography of John Mandeville, Sir Biography
		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.
		A succinct analysis of Mandeville is in chapter 3, "The Beginnings of English Prose," by Alice D. Greenwood, in volume 2 of The Cambridge History of English Literature (15 vols., 1919-1931).
		However, the latest and most definitive study to date, which refutes Letts's theory that Mandeville was John of Bourgogne, is Josephine Bennett, The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville (1954), in which the author thoroughly discusses the problems of authorship, the sources, and the literary quality of the Travels.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-mandeville-sir (720 words)

	The riddle and the knight: In search of Sir John Mandeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His assertion that the world was a globe (flying in the face of accepted dogma) and that it was possible to travel by sea to the Far East, was THE incentive that drove the expeditions of hundreds of explorers and merchants.
		Mandeville purports to have visited a great many places through the middle east on a pilgrimage (from Turkey, through Syria to Jerusalem).
		One of the biggest of these is that Mandeville never described any of the routes he took, only the places he arrived at - and then great wodges of the descriptions he used for these places were cobbled together from other printed sources which he would have had access too at the time.
	www.textkit.com /0_0850319994.html (1116 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Riddle and the Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir John Mandeville, a medieval English knight, was either one of history's greatest explorers or one of its greatest liars, depending on how one reads the pages of his Travels.
		Sir John Mandeville was the alleged author of one of the most famous early-renaissance books.
		Mandeville's book was used by many others as a reference for hundreds of years until somewhere in the 1800's when he and his book were discredited and Mandeville generally became known as a fraud, never having actually traveled to the places he claimed to have visited.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340819456 (1449 words)

	Orients Apart: A Comparative Study of Marco Polo’s Travels and The Travel of Sir John Mandeville
		With Mandeville’s Travels, on the other hand, modern scholarship has been little concerned with whether the knight was real or not, and whether he (or she) actually visited China.
		Mandeville, through this interpellation, infers that the loss of the Holy Lands is a direct consequence of moral failure on the part of Christians more so than military failure.
		Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier and others have spent much effort in bridging the gap between the text and the historical and geographical reality it purports to map, but the nature of such work must be largely an act of faith.
	www.hku.hk /english/courses2000/2045/orients.htm (9476 words)

	Travels of Sir John Mandeville
		John was of age thirty-two year, when our Lord suffered his passion; and after his passion, he lived sixty-seven year, and in the hundredth year of his age he died.
		And in the tomb of St. John is nought but manna, that is clept angels' meat; for his body was translated into Paradise.
		And ye shall understand, that St. John let make his grave there in his life, and laid himself therein all quick; and therefore some men say, that he died not, but that he resteth there till the day of doom.
	www.pinyin.info /books/mandeville/chap04.html (930 words)

	Laputan Logic - The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir John Mandeville was an Early-Renaissance writer of travel tales, similar in style and content to his near-contemporary, Marco Polo.
		During his lifetime, and for a couple of centuries afterwards, Mandeville was the more famous of the two.
		Its original tile was "The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight," but is now generally known as "Travels of Sir John Mandeville." Polo's book, originally titled, "Descriptions of the World," came out about 1300.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2003/05/11-94361342.html (1067 words)

	Sir John Mandeville rewrites Vermont history
		According to Mandeville, he was the first to cross land to the Orient followed by Marco Polo.
		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.
		I know that Sir John’s book was put down as a fraud, and later as a romantic adventure travelogue by the more benevolent researchers.
	www.rsbpress.com /resume/JohnMandeville.html (827 words)

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		That town of Bersabe founded Bersabe (Bathsheba), the wife of Sir Uriah the Knight, on the which King David gat Solomen the Wise, that was king after David upon the twelve kindreds of Jerusalem and reigned forty year.
		And toward the east, an hundred paces, is the charnel of the hospital of Saint John, where men were wont to put the bones of dead men.
		There was buried Saint John the Baptist between two prophets, Elisha and Abdon; but he was beheaded in the castle of Macharim beside the Dead Sea, and after he was translated of his disciples, and buried at Samaria.
	www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/david.price/tosjm10.txt (21732 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir John Mandeville (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir John Mandeville, English Literature To 1499, Biographies
		Sir John Mandeville 14th-century English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MandevilJ.html (343 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Giles Milton's The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's ...
		Sir John Mandeville's reputation has been in decline for roughly five hundred years.
		The backlash against Mandeville ultimately grew to the point where the very notion that he ever traveled came to be doubted and even his existence was questioned by some.
		Milton builds a case for both the genuine existence of Sir John and for the authenticity of his travels through the Near and Middle East, though even he is dismissive of the possibility of Sir John traveling to the Far East.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/508/Riddle%20and%20t.htm (906 words)

	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 (240 words)

	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)

	Orients Apart: A Comparative Study of Marco Polo’s Travels and The Travel of Sir John Mandeville
		The distinction made by Sir Henry Yule in his introduction to The Book of Ser Marco Polo between the ‘unveracious Maundevile’ and the ‘truthful Marco’ is typical of a modern dichotomy between fact and fiction, a dichotomy that rarely asserts itself with such vigour in medieval or postmodern thought.
		Neither Tristram Shandy nor Mandeville’s Travels are postmodern in a materialist sense as they are of another age and worldview and cannot engage with the material conditions of historical postmodernity.
		In late medieval texts such as Mandeville’s Travels, there is no unified ‘real’ because of a conflict between the dominant Scriptural (a textual and symbolic world grounded in faith) and the emergent cartographic (a symbolic ordering grounded in mathematical abstraction).
	www.hku.hk /english/courses2000/2045/manfinal.htm (908 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prester John
		The first authentic mention of Prester John is to be found in the "Chronicle" of Otto, Bishop of Freising, in 1145.
		Prester John had emerged victorious from the terrible battle that lasted three days, and ended with the conquest of Ecbatana; after which the victor started for Jerusalem to rescue the Holy Land, but the swollen waters of the Tigris compelled him to return to his own country.
		In Germany Wolfram von Eschenbach, in "Parsifal", was the first to unite the legend of the Holy Grail with this history of Prester John.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12400b.htm (2300 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| Books \| REVIEW \| KNIGHTLY VISITS
		Before the Victorian Era, a mysterious medieval writer named Sir John Mandeville was considered the father of English literature.
		The whimsy and fantastical images found in Mandeville's 14th-century travelogue of Asia and the Holy Land was too grotesque for the cold, Christian rectitude of latter 19th-century Britain.
		Mandeville's Travels are like no other medieval text--quite an achievement, considering that the knight merrily stole stories and experiences from a shelf-full of contemporary accounts.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=2331 (634 words)

	Powell's Books - The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller by Giles ...
		Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe.
		Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats.
		Milton's first book, "The Riddle and the Knight", is part travelogue, part historical mystery, and a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-031242129x-4 (436 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)

	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 (687 words)

	Mandeville's Voyages, by Sir John Mandeville (chapter46a)
		This Emperour Prestre John, whan he gothe in to battaylle, azenst ony other Lord, he hathe no baneres born before him: but he hathe 3 crosses of gold, fyn, grete and hye, fulle of precious stones: and every of the crosses ben sett in a chariot, fulle richely arrayed.
		And his lond durethe in verry brede 4 moneths iorneyes, and in lengthe out of measure; that is to seyn, alle the yles undir erthe, that wee supposen to ben undir us.
		Besyde the yle of Pentexoire, that is the lond of Prestre John, is a gret yle long and brode, that men clepen Milsterak; and it is in the lordschipe of Prestre John.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /h/hakluyt/voyages/mandeville/chapter46a.html (3930 words)

	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics) by John Mandeville, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0140444351 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Mandeville's Medieval Audiences: A Study on the Re...
		The Travels of Sir John Mandeville; A Manuscript i...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0140444351.html (437 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At one point, Milton comments 'For all his descriptions of the places he visits and the people he meets, Sir John is almost completely silent about himself'.
		Mandeville is a fascinating character, whose Travels were one of the most popular books in medieval Europe.
		I was absolutely entranced by Milton's story of his travels in search of Sir John Mandeville, and found his accounts of the places as they are today - eg Jerusalem, Damascus, Sinai - enthralling.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340819456 (952 words)

	The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller - Cookie Nest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir John Mandeville, a medieval English knight, was either one of history's greatest explorers or one of its greatest liars, depending on how one reads the pages of his
		The satisfaction comes not in finally putting to rest the historical debate whether Sir John Mandeville ever made his epic pilgrimmage but rather in going along with Milton as he makes his journey.
		Along the way you will decide for yourself the truth about Sir John's narrative, which is exactly the way all such quests should be pursued.
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