@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hjm7d.8,
 ISBN = {9780812245622},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hjm7d.8},
 abstract = {The era of theTravels’ composition may be characterized as one in which Europe both turned away from the East and turned inward.¹ The fall of Acre, the last Christian outpost of Outremer, to the Mamluks in 1291 meant that trading, missionary, and pilgrimage routes to the East were significantly slowed. In 1316 the khans of Persia adopted Islam, thereby constituting a Muslim block on the trade routes to India and China. By the time Mandeville wrote in the mid-1350s, calls for a new crusade on the Holy Land were hampered by the reality of absorption of resources in the},
 bookauthor = {Shirin A. Khanmohamadi},
 booktitle = {In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages},
 pages = {113--144},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville},
 year = {2014}
}