Sir John Mandeville is the pen name used by the unidentified 14th-century English author of one of the most famous and widely read travel romances of Europe--The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight. Originally written in Norman French...

Mandeville's Travels is the modern editorial title of a prose treatise that initially circulated under several medieval titles, most commonly The Book of John Mandeville. By its own account this variously titled book was put together by a certain John...

(d. 1372). Composed at Liège ca. 1357 by an otherwise unidentifiable English knightvoyager, Mandeville’s Voyages d’outre-mer was the most popular secular book of its day, surviving in over 250 manuscripts and some ninety incunabula,...

"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1371. By aid of translations into many other languages...

Writing East: The 'Travels' of Sir John Mandeville. By IAIN MACLEOD HIGGINS. (The Middle Ages Series) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. xi + 335 pp. $49.95. The fictional travels of Sir John Mandeville have long attracted scholarly controversy, especially since over...

Tamarah Kohanski, The Book of John Mandeville, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 251 (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 2001). 190 pp. ISBN 0-86698-275-6. $28.00/24.00 [pounds sterling]. The introduction to this modernized reprint of Pynson's edition of the abridged and imperfect English...

In the excerpt below, Campbell argues that Mandeville's Travels was a parody and an early precursor of the modern novel.

In the following excerpt, Zacher presents an overview of Mandeville's Travels, focusing on Mandeville's treatment of the Holy Land, and argues that the work is worth interest because of "its peculiar attitude toward pilgimage and exploration, its intricate sturcture, and its sophisticated point of view. "

In the following excerpt, Moseley discusses the work's author, reputation, values, and sources. The critic contends that the popularity of Mandeville' s Travels demands that the work be given serious attention if scholars want to understand the world view of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.