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Mission of Friar William of Rubruck Hakluyt Sociery HC
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- ISBN
- 9780904180299
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0904180298
ISBN-13
9780904180299
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2256287
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Mission of Friar William of Rubruck : His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255
Publication Year
1990
Subject
Asia / Central Asia, Asia / General, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, History
Series
Hakluyt Society, Second Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
26.4 Oz
Item Length
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Item Width
0 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
173
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
915.04/22
Table Of Content
Contents: Editorial note; Chronology of Rubruck's mission; The Mongol imperial family: genealogical table; Introduction; Rubruck's report to King Louis IX of France; Appendices; Bibliography of works cited; Index.
Synopsis
Prior to the 13th century the horizons of Western Christians extended no further than the principalities of what is now European Russia and the Islamic powers of the near East. Beyond lay a world of which they had only the haziest impressions. The belief that Christian communities were to be found here was nurtured in the 12th century by the growth of the legend of Prester John; but otherwise Asia was peopled in the Western imagination by monstrous races borrowed from the works of late Antiquity. The rise of the Mongol empire, however, and the Mongol devastation of Hungary and Poland in 1241-2, brought the West into much closer contact with Inner Asia. Embassies were being exchanged with the Mongols from 1245; Italian merchants began to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the union of much of Asia under a single power; and the newly emerging orders of preaching friars, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, who had been active in Eastern Europe and in the Islamic world since the 1220s, found their field of operations greatly expanded. The Franciscan William of Rubruck, who travelled through the Mongol empire in 1253-55, composed the earliest report of such a missionary journey that has come down to us. Couched in the form of a long letter to the French king Louis IX, this remarkable document constitutes an extremely valuable source on the Mongols during the era of their greatness. Rubruck was also the first Westerner to make contact with Buddhism, to describe the shamanistic practices by which the Mongols and other steppe peoples set such store, and to make detailed observations on the Nestorian Christian church and its rites. His remarks on geography, ethnography and fauna (notably the ovis poli, which he encountered a generation before the more celebrated Venetian adventurer from whom it takes its scientific name) give him an additional claim to be one of the keenest of medieval European observers to have travelled in Asia. This new annotated translation is designed to supersede that of W.W. Rockhill, published by the Society in 1900, by relating Rubruck's testimony to the wealth of material on Mongol Asia that has become accessible in other sources over the past nine decades.
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- 2***f (88)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast shipping and delivery, very good packaging, item was exactly as described, good value for the money, this is a five stars to this seller ! :-)
- c***f (396)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood condition copy of an old book from the 1990s. Missing the insert booklet with reference material but you can’t have everything. Cover scuffed as described but interior and binding good. Packed in a plastic bag, inside a card sleeve for armour, and inside a padded envelope - thank you for looking after the book in transit. Posted in good time. Top eBayer! Made my day to get the book today!
- a***l (12)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseFantastic addition to my collection, and when I saw the book arrived from another local Rhode Islander, it made the purchase all the better! Condition as described, carefully packaged, and speedy shipping. Athough the book has an inscription from prior owner (accurately disclosed by seller), I was so pleased to see the book was originally a prom dance gift from 1876. How wonderful! Thank you for a transparent and seamless buying experience, and your book will be in great hands! Trusted seller!History Warwick Rhode Island 1642 to Present Time Oliver Payson Fuller HC (#185659300572)