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  1. William of Rubruck (c. 1220 – c. 1293, or ca. 1210-ca. 1270) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary, monk and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta and is the most detailed and valuable of the early Western accounts of the Mongols and their leader at ...

  2. Extract. The appearance of a new translation of the Itinerarium of William of Rubruck (1253–55) furnishes an opportunity to review the work done on this, possibly the most valuable of Western sources on the Mongols. By comparison with the mission of his fellow-Franciscan John of Plano Carpini some eight years before, that of Rubruck to the ...

    • Peter Jackson
    • 1987
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  4. Mar 21, 2017 · Rubruck was also the first Westerner to make contact with Buddhism, to describe the shamanistic practices by which the Mongols and other steppe peoples set such store, and to make detailed observations on the Nestorian Christian church and its rites. His remarks on geography, ethnography and fauna (notably the ovis poli, which he encountered a ...

    • Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca.ca., Jackson, Peter, Jan., Morgan, David, Aug.
    • 1991
  5. Jan 1, 2000 · WILLIAM OF RUBRUCK, Friar (fl. 1253-1255), a Flemish Franciscan missionary who traveled through the lands that the Mongols had conquered in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asia Minor between 1253 and 1255. Apart from references in the Opus Maius of his fellow-Franciscan Roger Bacon (see below), his report to the French king Louis IX ...

  6. Aug 11, 2017 · Irene Malfatto. Blog-post author Irene Malfatto, Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, SISMEL, Firenze.. Acre, spring 1253. The Franciscan William of Rubruk says goodbye to his friend and protector, the French king Louis IX, and starts a journey towards the Golden Horde khanate and its sovereign, Sartaq.

  7. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck. His journey to the court of the Great Khan Mongke, 1253-1255. Edited and translated by Peter Jackson, with David Morgan. (Hakluyt Society 2nd ser. 173.) Pp. xvi + 312 incl. frontispiece and 4 maps. London: Hakluyt Society, c/o Map Library, The British Library, 1990. £25. o 904180 29 8 - Volume 44 Issue 4

  8. Feb 17, 2022 · Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-02-17 11:11:34 Associated-names Jackson, Peter, 1948 January 27-; Morgan, David, 1945-

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