Odoric’s Relatio, Franciscans, and the Great Khans

0519159 - OÚ 2020 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Liščák, Vladimír
Odoric’s Relatio, Franciscans, and the Great Khans.
Studia Orientalia Slovaca. Roč. 18, č. 2 (2019), s. 69-92. ISSN 1336-3786
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Franciscan missions to China * Odoric of Pordenone * Yuan Dynasty * encounters with Great Khans
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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From major part of Latin manuscripts of the travelogue of Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan friar and pilgrim to the court of the Great Khan in the beginning of the fourteenth century, we can learn that he, together with some other Franciscans, met the Great Khan on his way to his Summer Palace in Shangdu. Odoric was one of the Franciscan missionaries in the Yuan Dynasty in the beginning of the 14th century. In his Relatio, he mentions the conversions to the faith of Christ, even among the dignitaries of the Yuan court, and thus witnesses the missionary activities of the Franciscan friars or of himself.
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