Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Yaballaha III, Nestorian Patriarch, and of His Vicar Bar Sauma, Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish Courts, at the End of the Thirteenth Century
IN this little volume there has been opened up for English readers an interesting chapter in the history of the intercourse between Orient and Occident. With painstaking care in Intro duction and notes Professor Montgomery has rendered the text understandable and, through bibliographical notices, has offered suggestion for further critical reading. The time is the late thirteenth century; the chief actors in the story are two travelers from far Cathay. The scene shifts rapidly all the way from Peking to the court of King Edward of Engleterra in Aquitaine. For Rabban Sauma, the Chinese whose diary was drawn upon for the history which is here translated, traveled quite as widely as did his contemporary, Marco Polo. And as the latter left us a narrative of his experiences in eastern lands, so here are chronicled the impressions of the first Chinese to leave a record of his visit to the West during the Middle Ages.
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