Mandeville'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville' was one of the most popular books of the later Middle Ages. Matthew Francis's collection is a sequence of poems that celebrate and give voice to Mandeville, caught as he is between physical and symbolic geographies, between a world that is round and one that has Jerusalem at its centre. |
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