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    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir...
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  • attributed to Galba; especially place-names and his familiarity with John Mandeville's Travels. However, the philologist, Joan Coromines, suggests that Galba's...
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    a primary source for the account of Mandeville's Travels. Many of the incredible reports about Asia in Mandeville have proven to be versions of Odoric's...
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    Romaunt of the Rose: "With swerd, or sparth (axe) or gysarme" and Mandeville's Travels: "with swerds drawen and gysarmez and axes") and the use in the epic...
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    Queens' College, Cambridge (BA, 1962), and received his PhD (entitled "Mandeville's travels: a study of the book and its importance in England, 1356–1750")....
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    in John de Mandeville's fourteenth-century Travels. Ipotanes appear in modern works of the fantasy genre. In his 1356 travelogue, The Travels of Sir John...
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    Spaniards in Haiti identified with Palombe, a legendary place where John Mandeville's Travels said there was a fountain of youth. The Bahamas is one of only two...
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    "Brittonic, British" or "Breton". The English texts of the popular work Mandeville's Travels mention Great Britain in the context of the invention of the True...
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    London: Hakluyt Society. Letts, Malcolm (ed. and trans.) (1953). Mandeville's Travels: Texts and Translations, 2 vols. Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., 101-2...
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    time, especially Marco Polo's Book of Marvels and Mandeville's Travels and Voyage of Sir John Mandeville. Many Indian and Chinese cities can be identified...
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    The Canterbury Tales Contemplacyon of sinners by William Touris Mandeville's Travels Beves of Hamtoun Guy of Warwick The Squire of Low Degree Robin Hood...
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  • White Tree parallels the Dry Tree mentioned in the 14th century text Mandeville's Travels. The Dry Tree had been alive in the time of Christ, and was prophesied...
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    Punalur, Paravur, and Karunagapally. Kollam appeared as Palombe in Mandeville's Travels, where he claimed it contained a Fountain of Youth. In 825 CE, the...
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  • The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Liam Mandeville (born 1997), English professional footballer Liz Mandeville, American musician Roger de Mandeville, 13th-century...
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    often contained science-fictional themes and elements. Works such as Mandeville's Travels included automata, alternate species and sub-species of humans, including...
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    Tibor (2006). French Linguistic Influence in the Cotton Version of Mandeville's Travels. Tinta Könyvkiadó. p. 113. ISBN 9789637094545. Archived from the...
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  • Thomas Southern's "Loyal Brother": A Play on the Popish Plot (1911) Mandeville's Travels (1919, 1923) Joseph Mansion, Paul Hamélius, Revue belge de philologie...
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    Foreign Literature, the Arts, and Sciences; in 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the...
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    marriage practices. Some early examples of these works being John Mandeville’s ‘’Travels’’ (1356), William Caxton’s ‘The mirrour of the wourld’ (1481), and...
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  • vein and metre, borrowed the human grotesques from the tales in Mandeville's Travels and from Thomas Coryat in preparation for his impenetrably absurd...
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    Ptolemy's view was not universal, however, and chapter 20 of Sir John Mandeville's Travels (c. 1357) supports Eratosthenes' calculation. Spread of this knowledge...
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    among competing pagan sects. The setting is borrowed in part from Mandeville's Travels. De Camp also wrote historical fiction set in the era of classical...
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    majority were Egyptians) the English traveler Sir John Mandeville mentioned in Mandeville's Travels that the Sultan was able to leave Egypt with 200,000...
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    inclusion in literary works that included romances, travelogues like Mandeville's Travels, poems such as Piers Plowman and John Gower's Confessio Amantis,...
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    in which the winds (rhumbs) meet at angles; they consider when a ship travels by the East wind (levant) 100 miles from the center, how many miles it...
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  • such as Lucan's Bellum Civile, Bede's Historica Ecclesiastica, Mandeville's Travels, Arthurian romances and the like. To this catalogue may perhaps be...
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  • John Mandeville was the putative author of the 14th-century travel book, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. John Mandeville may also refer to: John Mandeville...
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    Innovative Poetry. 4 (1): 11–22. Francis, Matthew (2012). "Rewriting Mandeville's Travels". In Weiss, Julian; Salih, Sarah (eds.). Locating the Middle Ages:...
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    Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency. Retrieved 13 October 2014. Mandeville's travels: a study of the book and its importance in England, 1356-1750. British...
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    Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe. Bernard Mandeville's Modest Defence of Publick Stews asked to introduce public and state-controlled...
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