Marco Polo's Le devisement du monde : narrative voice, language and diversity / Simon Gaunt.

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Gaunt, Simon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2013.
Ã2013
Series:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 31.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Le devisement du monde : textual tradition and genre
  • Narrative voice and style : 'ego Marcus Paulo'
  • Language and translation : 'in lingua Galica dicitur'
  • Knowledge, marvels and other religions : 'oculis propriis videt'
  • Diversity and alterity : 'diversarum regionum mundanas diversitates'
  • Conclusion : 'et ipse non notavit nisi pauca aliqua, que adhuc in mente retinebat.'