Odoric of Pordenone and His Account on the orientalium partium in the Light of Manuscripts

0368808 - OÚ 2012 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Liščák, Vladimír
Odoric of Pordenone and His Account on the orientalium partium in the Light of Manuscripts.
Anthropologia integra. Roč. 2, č. 2 (2011), s. 63-74. ISSN 1804-6657
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90210515
Keywords : China * missionaries to China * Franciscan missionaries * medieval travelogues
Subject RIV: AB - History

Odoric of Pordenone (c. 1275/85–1331), a Franciscan missionary, ranks among the most important medieval persons who, in the 13th/14th centuries, descibe China. This article represents a study of the numerous copies of Odoric’s narrative (both of the original text and of the versions in French, Italian, German &c.) that have come down to our time, chiefly from the 14th century.
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