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Marco Polo, Odorico of Pordenone, the Crusade, and the Role of the Vernacular in the First Descriptions of the Indie

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dc.contributor.authorGarcía Espada, Antonio
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dc.date.issued2009-01-01
dc.descriptionThe registered version of this article, first published in Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies, is available online at the publisher's website: Brepols Publishers, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.100351
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dc.description.abstractIn contrast to the notion most historians have advanced of a “primitive” literary phenomenon, this article demonstrates that the first “descriptions of the Indies,” which at the turn of the fourteenth century were elaborated by Marco Polo, Odorico of Pordenone, and other mendicants traveling toward the Far East, deserve to be examined as an autonomous field of inquiry closely connected with the definitive loss of the Holy Land in 1291. The need for accurate knowledge about the Indian Ocean and the Mongols was a strategic necessity that Crusade theorists introduced in the highest political circles. Benefitting from a non-elitist language that complied with tradition and simultaneously marked a departure from it, Marco Polo and his peers contributed significantly to meeting this need. In spite of the superficial identification with the prestigious and ancient tradition of the allegorical East, the “descriptions of the Indies” challenged long-standing assumptions about medieval Orientalism and presented the lands beyond the Dar al Islam as a tangible geopolitical entity that would enable comparison with—and even the enlargement of—the political and spiritual horizons of the Latin West.en
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dc.identifier.citationEspadas, A. G. (2009). Marco polo, odorico of pordenone, the crusades, and the role of the vernacular in the first descriptions of the indies. Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 40(1), 201-222. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.100351
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.100351
dc.identifier.eissn2031-0234
dc.identifier.issn0083-5897
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31887
dc.journal.issue1
dc.journal.titleViator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
dc.journal.volume40
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final222
dc.page.initial201
dc.publisherBrepols Publishers
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Geografía e Historia
dc.relation.departmentHistoria Medieval, Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject5504.03 Historia medieval
dc.subject.keywordsMarco Poloen
dc.subject.keywordslater Crusadesen
dc.subject.keywordsWilliam Adamen
dc.subject.keywordsmedieval Indiesen
dc.subject.keywordssubversive Orientalismen
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