Odorik z Pordenone De reverentia magni chanis.
| Title in English | Odoric of Pordenone De reverentia magni chanis. |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Odoric of Pordenone (ca. 1280/85-1331), a Franciscan monk and pilgrim to the court of Kublai Khan, has spent, in the 1320s, three or four years in Khanbaliq (now Beijing), the capital of the Yuan empire. He arrived to the capital around 1325, at a time when John of Montecorvino (ca. 1247–1328), also a Franciscan, was titular archbishop of Khanbaliq and patriarch of the East (1307–1328). There are several important passages regarding the kingdom and power of the Great Khan in Latin manuscripts of Odoric's travelogue. |