biography
| name: |
Mandeville, Jehan de or Sir John
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pronunciation:
[mandevil]
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| male
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| lived:
| (14th-c)
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| biography:
| The name assigned to the compiler of a famous and fanciful book of travels (The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight), published apparently in 1366, and soon translated from the French into all European tongues. It may have been written by a physician, Jehan de Bourgogne, otherwise Jehan à la Barbe, who died in Liège in 1372, and who is said to have revealed on his death-bed his real name of Mandeville (or Maundevylle), explaining that he had had to flee from his native England for a homicide. Some scholars, however, attribute it to Jean d'Outremeuse, a Frenchman. |
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