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Marco Polo Research. Past, present, future, Hans Ulrich Vogel et Ulrich Theobald (éd.), Tübingen Library Publishing, 2024.

Présentation:

This collective volume on Marco Polo’s (1254-1324) travels attempts to integrate the fragmented research landscape by bringing together individual disciplines which usually work separately, like philology, comparative literature, text and reception history, Romance linguistics, as well as geography, anthropology, the history of religion, science, military, economics, etc. It is thus one of but a few works that go beyond singular aspects of Marco Polo’s journey and his observations and thus shows that Polo’s Description of the World is much more than just a travelogue.
The international contributors to this volume, who are leading scholars in their fields, make use of different, sometimes unique sources and thus help us better understand the Venetian’s report and the times it was created, and also to verify and elucidate statements in the many versions and editions in which it came down to us. In addition, the essays published here are meant to be a contribution to the celebrations commemorating the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death.

Table des matières:

Ulrich Theobald and Hans Ulrich Vogel, Preface

Le Devisement dou monde: History and Digitization of the Text(s)
– Philippe Ménard, Recherches passées, travaux récents et investigations futures sur le Devisement du monde de Marco Polo
– Alvise Andreose, The Textual Transmission of the Devisement dou monde: Old Problems and New Insights
– Samuela Simion, Mario Eusebi and Eugenio Burgio, On the Way to an Integral Edition of the Book of Marco Polo: A First Attempt to Create a Digital Edition
– Giuseppe Mascherpa, The Description of the City of Quinsai in the Early Tradition of the Devisement dou monde
– Michel Quereuil, Le Tibet dans les principales versions du Devisement du monde

Reception and Styles of the Book, and the Literary Field
– Marcello Ciccuto, The Illuminated Manuscripts of the Devisement: Words and Images in Establishing a Late Medieval Pattern of Perception for the Topic of Travelling to the Far East
– Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli, Who Read Marco Polo’s Book and Why?
– Sharon Kinoshita, Translating Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du monde
– Danièle James-Raoul, La poétique du voyage dans le Devisement du monde: Éléments de style
– Dominique Boutet, L’exotisme dans le Devisement du monde, en particulier dans le « Livre d’Inde »
– Michèle Guéret-Laferté, Persia, a Strategical Place in the Devisement du monde: Order and Disorder in the Progress of the Narrative

Marco Polo’s Reports and the World He Witnessed
– Li TANG, Marco Polo’s Description on “Nestorians” and other Christian Groups in Yuan China
– DANG Baohai, Two Mongolian Toponyms in Marco Polo’s Account: The Green Mound and Cacciar Modun
– LUO Wei, On Some Designations Used in the Description of the World and the Political Attitude of Marco Polo