Marco Polo's Le Devisement du Monde Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
Le Devisement du Monde' (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as 'Marco Polo's Travels', is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history. This book examines the text from a fresh, literary viewpoint, drawing upon a range of different disciplines and approaches, including philology, manuscript studies, cultural history, postcolonial studies and theory. The author also calls into question traditional accounts of the use of French outside France in the Middle Ages and offers a re-assessment of Marco Polo's position in the evolution o.
"Le Devisement du Monde' (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as 'Marco Polo's Travels', is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history. This book examines the text from a fresh, literary viewpoint, drawing upon a range of different disciplines and approaches, including philology, manuscript studies, cultural history, postcolonial studies and theory. The author also calls into question traditional accounts of the use of French outside France in the Middle Ages and offers a re-assessment of Marco Polo's position in the evolution o."@en
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Travelers' writings, Italian History and criticism.
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