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Sodom And Gomorrah: The Use Of Mandeville's Travels In Cleanness, Liam O. Purdon
Sodom And Gomorrah: The Use Of Mandeville's Travels In Cleanness, Liam O. Purdon
Quidditas
The Pearl-Poet's late fourteenth-century appropriation in Cleanness of a mid-fourteenth century work, Mandeville's Travels, has been an established fact since the publication of Robert J. Menner's edition of the poem. The poet uses the Travels as a source for two important episodes: the description of Sodom and Gomorrah's cataclysmic destruction and the description of Belshazzar's brief and idolatrous reign in Babylon. While many points of connection between the Travels and Cleanness in the Sodom and Gomorrah episode have been identified, the poet's dependence on Mandeville in this scene raises two questions that have not yet been satisfactorily answered. …
Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society
Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society
LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society
Logos-Sophia, Volume 1, Fall 1988. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.