The Book of John Mandeville and the Oriental Conceptions of the European from the 14th to the 16th Century:Based on the History of Pilgrimage in Culture
As a spiritual continuation of the historical experience of Latin Christian society,pilgrimage literature is a cultural reflection of the medieval and Renaissance European society,providing important motivation and context for the construction of Oriental conceptions and images in early modern Europe.The Book of John Mandeville(c.1356)was the most influential travel account in late medieval Europe.This paper aims to interpret Oriental narratives from the perspectives of pilgrims'motivation,sacred geography and the history of reading,and tries to demonstrate the"Orient"discourse tradition of early Western civilization and the formation of a modern global history.
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