William of rubruck biography books

  • William of Rubruck or Guillaume de Rubrouck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer.
  • William of Rubruck (circa – ) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer.
  • William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia.
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  • The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World,

    August 11,
    Probably not as exciting as Giovanni da Pian del Carpin's travels to Mongolia a decade earlier, but probably a better account overall. The narrative is extensive, more detailed and the author is a far more skeptical about dog-headed people or whatever (but he still falls for a kneeless people story!). Möngke Khan's playing of the religions off of one another is masterful, in keeping with the Mongolian tradition. Particularly liked the monk's description of the Nestorians and the Buddhists. His trouble with interpreters is funny, though he eventually hooks up with a a European who has been hired as an architect at the Khan's palace, and who built an interesting fountain.

    My other favourite bits:

    The Nestorians there know nothing. They say their offices, and have sacred books in Syrian, but they do not know the language, so they chant like those monks among us who do not know grammar, and they are absolutely depraved. In the first place they are usurers and drunkards; some even among them who live with the Tartars have several wives like them. When they enter church, they wash their lower parts like Saracens; they eat meat on Friday, and have their feasts on that day in Saracen fashion. The bish

    The Journey Of William Of Rubruck

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