Marco Polo's Le Devisement du Monde : Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity

The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.

Le Devisement du Monde (1298), better though inaccurately known in English as Marco Polo's Travels, is one of only a handful of medieval texts that remain iconic today for European cultural history, and Marco Polo is one of only a handful of medieval writers who still enjoys instant name-recognition. Yet there is little awareness of the Devisement's complex history and developmen...