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Abstract
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was one of the most popular books of the later Middle Ages. Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate. Matthew Francis's new collection is a sequence of poems that celebrate and give voice to Mandeville, in his own words, caught as he is between physical and symbolic geographies, between a world that is round and one that has Jerusalem at its centre. And all of it narrated in the terse, solitary, conflicted and strangely passionate voice of this medieval Crusoe whose very existence was disputed.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780571239276 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Mar 2008 |
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Reading of Mandeville
Francis, M. (Speaker)
08 Dec 2010Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival or Exhibition
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Poetry Reading / Lecture
Francis, M. (Speaker)
30 Apr 2009 → 01 May 2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Rewriting Mandeville's Travels
Francis, M. (Speaker)
19 Mar 2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Poetry Reading / Launch
Francis, M. (Speaker)
09 Apr 2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation