6/30/2023 0 Comments The million marco polo![]() It is perhaps no surprise, then, that for much of the remainder of his life Polo was ridiculed and derided by his countrymen in Venice. If Polo was to be believed (and if the maps he returned with were any indicator) nearly half the world was mired in ignorance and idolatry, sworn enemies of Western Christianity (a hard pill for any medieval reader to swallow). When Marco Polo’s account of his travels throughout Asia was released in the year 1299 (originally entitled Il Milione or The Million, a reference to the sheer numbers of people and riches described within) his descriptions of “heathen” rituals and perversities horrified the European world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivered at the annual Graduate Student Symposium at Perdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in March 2013 ![]()
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