IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 607: Reading, Translating, and Illustrating Mandeville's Travels from the 14th to the 17th Centuries
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organiser: | Marianne O'Doherty, Department of English, University of Southampton |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Bennett, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania |
| Paper 607-a | Examining the Role of the Narrator in the Multilingual Textual Tradition of Mandeville's Travels (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin and Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 607-b | Illustrating Pilgrimage in 14th- and 15th-Century Manuscripts of Mandeville's Travels (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 607-c | Traveller, Plagiarist, Romancer, or Fabricator?: Literary Echoes of and References to Mandeville in Post-Medieval Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | The Book of Sir John Mandeville was a medieval ‘best seller’, widely read across Europe in different social contexts and languages from its composition circa 1356 into the early modern period and beyond. This session brings together three papers that focus on complementary aspects of the text’s long and complex reception history. Focussing particularly on the Insular, Defective and Vulgate Latin versions of the text, Yu Onuma will explore what the differing treatment of the narrator, Sir John Mandeville, across these versions can tell us about their different purposes and functions. Marianne O'Doherty will look at evidence for the medieval reception of the text as a pilgrimage account, focussing specifically on the assumptions about pilgrimage, holy place, and pilgrimage texts encoded in illustrated French, English, and German manuscripts of the late 14th and 15th centuries. Ali Sengul's paper will focus on the later reception of the text, offering an analysis of Mandeville’s impact on various readers - authors, poets and editors - in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |