John Mandeville
Jehan de Mandeville (?, Lige 17 November 1372 ), originally from Cork , is an explorer and author of a book entitled The (original title in Latin: that is to say which he wrote after a journey of 34 years in Egypt , and in different countries of Asia , until China. This title evokes the famous Book of Wonders , which is commonly attributed Marco Polo , and dictated by him to his companion in prison, rather NOTA Travels the world. John Mandeville, a professor of medicine, said to be a knight English.
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John Mandeville first studied medicine. He left for Egypt on the day of Saint Michael in 1322. He said on his return have been a mercenary in the service of the Sultan , then at war with the Bedouins. Moved from Egypt to Palestine , he followed the Silk Road and visited the Indian , the interior of Asia , and China. It would have served fifteen years in the army of the great khan.
After an absence of 34 years, he returned in 1356 , that is to say a few years after the Black Death of the fourteenth century , which resulted in a population drain in Europe in the years 1347 - 1350.
We know the date of his death from the description that the geographer Abraham Ortelius gave his tomb The story of his journey Upon his return, he decided, with the help of a doctor of Liege , to set down on paper the stories he had witnessed, but also the actor. His collection has become one of the most famous works of the Middle Ages , and probably most read by his contemporaries ( Christine de Pisan , John the Fearless , the Duke of Burgundy ). Between travelogue and learned treatise, he describes the world known to the fourteenth century , notably the Asian Far East, which was still very little known at the time of the Western: only a few missionaries, Franciscans and Dominicans , as well as Marco Polo , had ventured into these distant regions. The stories of these early missionaries ( William of Rubruck ) or explorers (see World Travels , an account of the voyage of Marco Polo ) were just released in the West at that time, and the great plague had done great damage. John Mandeville referred to the theoretical possibilities "circumnavigation" of the world , that we knew in the fourteenth century, since the great scholars (Albert the Great ...) had incorporated this notion. This is probably what made his work so popular in the late Middle Ages. It is known that Jean Mandeville has had some influence on Christopher Columbus. John Mandeville described routes, inserted stories and legends in a fabulous story mixing references biblical considerations and religious. The book is thus a compilation and synthesis of a series of trips including: It has been reproduced more than 250 copies in ten languages, which is considerable for the time. This suggests that many people in the West regarded the earth as spherical. The critical study of this work, done by Christiane Deluz, shows that it was written in three versions: Version would be the oldest island. These three versions have been translated into various vernaculars. The diversity of sources, references, initial versions, translations into vernacular languages makes it difficult to authenticate information. Located in Cork , behind the station Guillemins , Mandeville Street is named in honor of the 'famous English traveler, buried in the monastery church Guillemins. The street that name since 6 March 1863 following a proposal by Alderman Bourdon. Gobert Theodore at length about the character, a contemporary of Jean Outremeuse in his book "The Streets of Liege. He sees it more as a novelist or storyteller, inspired by Jean Outremeuse. Posterity
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