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by John Larner

Author:	John Larner
Subcategory:	Humanities
Language:	English
Publisher:	Yale University Press; First Edition edition (September 10, 1999)
Pages:	264 pages
Category:	Other
Rating:	4.2
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Marco Polo is important not because he traveled extensively in Asia-other 13th-century Europeans did that-but .

Marco Polo is important not because he traveled extensively in Asia-other 13th-century Europeans did that-but because he wrote down his experiences for others to read. In this excellent study, John Larner of Glasgow University assesses the impact of Polo's Travels on the intellectual society of his day. The book's contribution to learning was immense, giving medieval Europeans new information that forever changed their understanding of Europe's place in the world.

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After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. Larner has written an erudite, comprehensive, and very readable study of the enigmatic Venetian Marco Polo, his book, and the book's impact on European culture. In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range of influence of Polo’s Book on the history of geography and exploration. Choice John Larner is Professor Emeritus in History and Professorial Fellow of Glasgow University.

Marco Polo is important not because he traveled extensively in Asia-other 13th-century Europeans did that-but . An examination of the range and influence of Marco Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration.

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Larner, John, 1930-2008. Images of Asia and the coming of the Mongols The Polos Marco Polo and Rustichello The making of the book The description of the world Varieties of the book Marco, merchants and missionaries Marco among the humanists Columbus and after Jesuits, imperialists and a conclusion A note on manuscripts of the book Times of travel to China by land Marco Polo and world. maps of the fifteenth century. Personal Name: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Travels of Marco Polo. Geographic Name: Asia Description and travel Early works to 1800.

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. furthest edges of the world Pg 10 14 Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner. New Haven: Yale University Press. furthest edges of the world. This map represents the worldview of the people of the medieval period who 13 Friedman, 1981. Pg 10 14 Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. The History of Genghizcan the Great: First Emperor of the Ancient Moguls and Tartars. London: Printed for J. Darby, et. 1722. The Travels of Marco Polo. Introduction to The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo, trans. London: Penguin, 1958. New York: Dover, 1993.

Автор: Larner Название: Marco Polo & the Discovery of the World Издательство: Yale University .

After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo’s Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range of influence of Polo’s Book on the history of geography and exploration. Larner assesses the findings of modern scholarship and offers an original account of Polo and his family, of how and why the Book came into being, and of its reception over the centuries.Beginning with a discussion of the extent of European knowledge of Asia early in the thirteenth century, Larner considers what is known about Marco Polo’s life and the composition of his text. He examines the Book’s scope and sources (vindicating its author from recent claims that he never visited China), as well as the nature of Polo’s cooperation with his co-author Rustichello da Pisa. He traces the manuscript forms and translations of Polo’s Book in the Middle Ages, its influence on Western cartographers, its fortunes in the climate of fifteenth-century humanism, the possible extent of its encouragement to Columbus, and its later evolution into such new guises as the object of historical scholarship and exotic curiosity. Finally, Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Polo, who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers.

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"That Truth which has the Face of a Lie", (p.116), this is John Larner's theme as he reviews Polo's famous book, an account of the Venetian's twenty-four year voyage to the Khan's court in China and back again. Larner explains why Polo's book is an extraordinary achievement, not because it is a great diary, nor because Polo was a particularly perceptive observer, but simply because it was written at all when so little hard data was coming from the East, and thus the broad influence it had on the West.
In one passage (p.85), that could usefully have come earlier, Larner explains, "...Who is Marco Polo? He is not an adventurer, a merchant, or a Christian missionary; he is rather a minor Mongolian civil servant who during his years in the East has been an observer or student of the topography and human geography of Asia, of its customs and folklore, of, above all, the authority and court of the Great Khan, all seen from a Mongol point of view. Then, having taken early retirement, he has sought an audience for his memories. Marco left Venice in 1271 at the age of seventeen. He returned in 1295, twenty-four years later, aged forty-one. Take these facts, together with a truly remarkable feature of the Book: that in describing the eastern world there is no evidence of culture shock."
This is a book for scholars, for those who have read Polo's work. The endnotes and bibliography extend for almost fifty pages, revealing to the novice the existence of an entire academic sub-stratum devoted to the study, debunking, and defense of Marco Polo. Larner analyses Polo's book and its importance, rather than Polo himself or the importance of his voyage. Readers interested in a voyage almost unimaginable in today's small, well-charted world should start with Polo's book itself, whose very simplicity and dryness inspired Larner but may put off newcomers.
Several years after returning from the East, Polo dictated the book to a cellmate in a Genoese prison. Thereafter it was translated and copied dozens of times, with each subsequent interpreter adding his own biases atop Polo's simple prose. Illustrators drew fantastic creatures of the East that Polo never mentioned. As a result, many scholars grew convinced that Polo never made it past the Black Sea and the book was a pack of lies. Larner does a credible job debunking these ideas, although he tends to fall so in love with Marco that his own defenses can appear manufactured, as on p.64 when he ascribes an obvious falsehood in Polo's book to his co-writer's attempts to spice up the text. Perhaps Polo lied, or forgot, or the co-writer misheard, but we have no way to know; there is no evidence one way or the other, and this reader wondered whether Larner's attempts to excuse Polo indicated that he had surrendered his objectivity. On another occasion (p.102), he explains away Polo's virulent anti-Muslim prejudices by suggesting these views are not really so extreme and, in any case, were part of the contemporary worldview.
The book is a good one, not without flaws, but instructive, interesting, and eye-opening. The maps and color illustrations are gorgeous, and Marco Polo himself is such a compelling figure that it is simply interesting to read more about him than he reveals in his own words

Viashal

a really hard read, if your a professor, this book is too complicated for an intro coarse, a 200 coarse maybe... unless your actually a good teacher, and not someone who should be fired but sadly has tenure so you cannot be, and we all have to suffer for it (but that's another story.)

Madi

This book is by far and without question the best book you can buy about Marco Polo ! Larner is learnered and even handed with the facts - of course you'll need to read Polo's " Description of the world first , and Larners book will decode it for you in a way that will open up Marco's world - few other books come close , of course Sir Henry Yule's life's work , which is without equal and lead the way Larners volume, that builds and clarifies in a way Yule's does not.
Lastly another work that comes close but from a different angle is " In the footseps of Marco Polo " by Explorers Francis O'Donnell and Dennis Beelefold , it chronicales their two year 25,000 mile journey as they retraced the entire route of Marco Polo - The first and only team in history to do so - their book is a companion to the Emmy nominated documentary of the same name !

Karg

I think that this book helps a lot if you are trying to write a report on him. If I had enough money then I would probably buy the book. The one thing that it needs is more pictures. I like how it gives you just the right amount of information.

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