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Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630

By Jennifer Goodman

Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630

By Jennifer Goodman

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Explorers from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith viewed their travels and discoveries in the light of attitudes they absorbed from the literature of medieval knighthood. Their own accounts, and contemporary narratives (reinforced by the interest of early printers), reveal this interplay, but historians of exploration on the one hand, and of chivalry on the other, have largely ignored this cultural connection. Jennifer Goodman convincingly develops the idea of the chivalric romance as an imaginative literature of travel; she traces the publication of medieval chivalric texts alongside exploration narratives throughout the later middle ages and renaissance, and reveals parallel themes and preoccupations. She illustrates this with the histories of a sequence of explorers and their links with chivalry, from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith, and including Gadifer de la Salle and his expedition to the Canary Islands, Prince Henry the Navigator, Cortés, Hakluyt, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
JENNIFER GOODMAN teaches at Texas A & M University.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
1998-05-01
Publication Date:
1998-03-06
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0851157009
ISBN13:
9780851157009
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
534 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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