Travel Narration and World Imagination in the Late Medieval Western Europe——A Study of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The travels of Mandeville is the most popular Oriental Travel writing of the late Middle Ages.It is an erudite work that combines pilgrimage records and the Oriental knowledge from various sources through cross-border literary practice;At the same time,with a unique European perspective,it integrates the traditions of clas-sical geography and the framework of biblical cosmology into a dreamy picture of the world,creating the enduring textual authority and spreading charm of the early modern Latin Christian Oriental narrative.An in-depth study of the text features,world concepts and religious consciousness contained in this writing form can not only restore the complex boundary between factual and fictional medieval travel writing,but also helps to highlight the unique po-sition and influence of the medieval East in the development of European ideology and culture in early modern times,thereby releasing the rich meaning space that medieval literature should have as a cultural history and me-dieval global history phenomenon.
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