#Sir John Mandeville

[hardcoded-gaming]

Read this book! It is such a trip! (no pun intended)

[disclaimer: half-remembered from freshman Literature 12 years ago]

Mandeville before Jerusalem: this town has some quaint folk traditions, and a neat local legend about a dragon.

Mandeville at Jerusalem: It was awe-inspiring, one of the grandest moments of my life. But it's not like I personally witnessed a miracle, or received a vision from God or anything. That would just make me sound crazy.

Mandeville after Jerusalem: And then at THIS place, everybody had dog heads! And then at THIS place, they didn't have heads at all; they had faces on their torsos! And then at THIS place I had to LITERALLY CLIMB DOWN TO HELL AND I SAW SATAN, YOU GUYS!

some funky people

in "the travels of sir john mandeville", translated into german by otto von diemeringen, ca. 1470

source: Stuttgart, Landesbibliothek, Cod. theol. et phil. 2° 195, fol. 161 recto and 160 verso (details).

[quotelr]

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

[frost-fells-ramblings]

Wanna know what the hardest part of being an English major and reading Warhammer is?

This damn series has forever ruined my ability to read medieval literature.

Let me explain. I am currently reading some crusade era literature for class (specifically "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville"), and I am plagued with Warhammer imagery when I really truly should not be.

Just to list out some of my pain:

Titus - Where I should see a Roman Emperor, I am plagued with our blueberry cake factory.

Vespasian - Where I should see the father of Titus, I am instead thinking of the Emperor’s Children and the "Fulgrim" novel (mental flashbang be upon me).

Euphrates - I am supposed to be thinking of the river, and yet, their is only a saintly woman in my head.

Templars - Que the Knight's Templar clawing their way out from behind Black Templars.

And much more in terms of broader descriptions.

Rescue me from my self-made brainrot hell. I can barely sit through Mandeville's prose already, but now I am seeing space marines in some of the few scenes I can actually read well. My point is that I should not be contemplating whether or not GW was directly inspired by certain descriptions from this manuscript in order to create the intensity of the Imperial Truth/Creed/Society, if this work's massive influence indirectly influenced it in some ways, or if they indirectly/directly drew upon some of the more dehumanizing and uncharitable descriptions of religions and cultures in order to describe Chaos and xenos races.

Instead, I should just read my damn book 😭

[postoctobrist]

“You can’t be a Muslim because you drink alcohol and eat pork” is a deeply modernist, voyeuristic understanding of Islam. I was just reading The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and he literally mentions that the Saracens secretly drink wine even tho they’re not supposed to and this shit was literally written in the 1300s

In Adeeb Khalid’s ‘Islam After Communism,’ he finds himself in a factory canteen in Uzbekistan interviewing Muslim workers, and when they find out he’s a Muslim too a bottle of vodka appears from nowhere and they all have a drink to celebrate

[picard-schreckensberger]

The Vegetable Lamb Plant

After Sir John Mandeville

This plate illustrates that version of the Fable by which the “Vegetable Lamb” is represented as contained within a fruit, or seed-pod, which, when ripe, bursts open, and discloses the little lamb within it.

[spatsandcravats]

I want to adopt this very silly interpretation of a cotton plant from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville as my personal badge

[holydreamlandengineer]

A compendium of English literature : chronologically arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : consisting of biographical sketches of the authors, selections from their works, with notes ... : designed as a text-book for the highest classes in schools and for junior classes in colleges, as well as for private reading : Cleveland, Charles Dexter, 1802-1869 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[yiddishlore]

Lion man of the Far East, from the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, translated into German by Otto von Diemeringen. Woodblock print with hand painted colors. This edition is from 1484, although the original text is from the 14th century.

[gamesfromfolktales]

The Dragon of Cos in Mandeville

This is your Monster of the Month. This week we revisit Sir John Mandeville, an entirely fictitious author, whose travel journals in the 14th century gave the Christians great hope that there was a great Christian Emperor in India who was going to rescue the Holy Land. Mandeville talks about how he goes to Prester John’s Court, and on the way there he stops on the island of Cos, where there are…

[fuzzy-oooze]

Is there any way we can be even better friends to you?

hmm... well, one of my favorite things ever is worldbuilding, I have many worldbuilding projects on various google docs. I'm a big fan of weird yet internally logical worlds with fucked-up-yet-clearly-natural creatures (that's why I made Blackpowder Engine actually), speaking of that, if you can draw I'd love little more than art of it's characters, even just commissioning someone else to do it would be fantastic. so those are things. I like history too, especially how different cultures interacted and what people thought lived on the edges of the maps, I'm a big fan of, for instance, the roman delegation to china, the Greco-Bactrian empire in Afghanistan, the travels of Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville, that kinda stuff. big fan of caves.

[lewdhat]

“In one of these isles be folk of great stature, as giants. And they be hideous for to look upon. And they have but one eye, and that is in the middle of the front. And they eat nothing but raw flesh and raw fish. And in another isle toward the south dwell folk of foul stature and of cursed kind that have no heads. And their eyen be in their shoulders.”

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1582

OTHELLO:

[…] It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,

The Anthropophagi and men whose heads

Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear

Would Desdemona seriously incline:

[leanstooneside]

Bearhug hold seated senton combination

1. spattered Dan: Ferdinando Hertodt

2. spattered Dr. Boteler

3. spattered Lyte

4. spattered Sir John Mandeville

5. spattered Thorn

6. spattered Summer Savory

7. spattered Henry

8. spattered Sir Thopas

9. spattered Smith's

10. spattered Phillip

11. spattered flora

12. spattered FRANCIS DE SALES

13. spattered grace

14. spattered Henry VI

15. spattered ed

16. spattered Henry IV

17. spattered Cole

18. spattered Rohault

19. spattered Johnston

20. spattered Camden

21. spattered Francis

22. spattered Professor Wanklyn

23. spattered Gerard's

24. spattered Mr. Maw

25. spattered flores

26. spattered Verd

27. spattered Jen

28. spattered Luther's Sermons

29. spattered Mr. George Maw

30. spattered Mary Redcliffe

31. spattered Tusser

32. spattered Somerville

33. spattered Gerard

34. spattered Sir John

35. spattered Richard III

36. spattered Hollybush

37. spattered Virgil

38. spattered Cape

39. spattered Ursula Hanbury's

40. spattered Dr. Prior

41. spattered Passion

42. spattered Roman

43. spattered Lady Ludlow

44. spattered Sir Thomas Smith

[benjaminasimpson]

Think Before You Read

Think Before You Read

Photo by Oleksii Hlembotskyi on Unsplash Alan Jacobs, in a recent edition of his newsletter, quotes Oscar Wilde on choosing what to read (and what to recommend): Books, I fancy, may be conveniently divided into three classes: Books to read, such as Cicero’s Letters, Suetonius, Vasari’s Lives of the Painters, the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Sir John Mandeville, Marco Polo, St. Simon’s…

[narniaandplowmen]

I would like to formerly apologise to John Mulaney

[go3dprinting]

Three Historical Accounts of the Dog-Headed Men // Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Sir John Mandeville

[valsedelesruines]

Sir John Mandeville, who apologized to his readers for failing to describe paradise.