Marco Polo and His ‘Travels’1
Dublin Core
Title
Marco Polo and His ‘Travels’1
Creator
Peter Jackson
Date
1998/02
Language
en
Type
Journal Article
Zotero
Item Type
Journal Article
DOI
10.1017/S0041977X00015779
ISSN
1474-0699, 0041-977X
Abstract Note
The year 1998 marks the seven-hundredth anniversary of the initial composition of the book associated with Marco Polo, Le devisament dou monde. As the first European to claim that he had been to China and back (not to mention that he had travelled extensively elsewhere in Asia), Polo has become a household name. He has been credited with the introduction of noodles into Italy and of spaghetti into China. With perhaps greater warrant, he has been cited as an authority onȔinter aliaȔthe capital of the Mongol Great Khan Qubilai, on the Mongol postal relay system, on the trade in horses across the Arabian Sea, and on political conditions on the north-west frontier of India in the mid thirteenth century. The Marco Polo bibliography published in 1986 contained over 2,300 items in European languages alone.
Access Date
2019-06-03 08:03:54
Date
1998/02
Issue
1
Language
en
Library Catalog
Cambridge Core
Pages
82-101
Publication Title
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Title
Marco Polo and His ‘Travels’1
URL
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/marco-polo-and-his-travels1/43D0A1957AEB261843E441018C033DE8
Volume
61
Attachment Title
Snapshot
Citation
Peter Jackson, “Marco Polo and His ‘Travels’1,” Mondiale Middeleeuwen, accessed April 25, 2025, http://mondialemiddeleeuwen.web.rug.nl/items/show/260.