Jennifer R. Goodman Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630Condition: NewISBN-10: 0851157009EAN: 9780851157009ISBN: 9780851157009Publisher: The Boydell PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/06/1998Description: The literature of medieval knighthood is shown to have influenced exploration narratives from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith.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 ideaof 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 themesand 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Jennifer R. GoodmanGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 1gTopic: Literary Criticism, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

Price: 156.13 USD

Location: 60502

End Time: 2025-01-07T10:52:37.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD