Map 2.2: Textual Imaginings
History of the Tartars [Historia Tartarum] (c. 1246)
History of the Mongols [Ystoria Mongalorum] (c. 1247-1250)
Alberic's Chronicle [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium] (1232-1241)
Travels of William of Rubruck [Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253 ad partes Orientales] (c. 1253-1255)
Mirror of History [Speculum Historiale] (1256-1269)
King's Mirror [Konungs Skuggsjá] (c. 1250)
Younger Titurel [Der jüngere Titurel] (c. 1270)
Chronicon Syriacum [Makhtbhanuth Zabhne] (c. 1258-1286)
The Travels of Marco Polo [Divisament dou monde] (c. 1298)
Riccolda d Monte di Croce's Itinerarius* (1300)
The Tree of Seth* (c. 1300)
Second Letter of John of Monte Corvino (1305)
Life of St. Louis [Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs] (1305-1309)
Il Novellino/The Hundred Old Tales [Le ciento novelle antike] (c. 1290-1300)
The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross [Liber Fidelium Crucis]* (c. 1300-1321)
Disputatio cum Hamar Sarraceni* (1309)
Younger Titurel [Der jüngere Titurel] (c. 1270)
Chronicon Syriacum [Makhtbhanuth Zabhne] (c. 1258-1286)
The Travels of Marco Polo [Divisament dou monde] (c. 1298)
Riccolda d Monte di Croce's Itinerarius* (1300)
The Tree of Seth* (c. 1300)
Second Letter of John of Monte Corvino (1305)
Life of St. Louis [Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs] (1305-1309)
Il Novellino/The Hundred Old Tales [Le ciento novelle antike] (c. 1290-1300)
The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross [Liber Fidelium Crucis]* (c. 1300-1321)
Disputatio cum Hamar Sarraceni* (1309)
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