中世纪晚期欧洲旅行叙事与世界想象——以《曼德维尔游记》为中心的考察

Travel Narration and World Imagination in the Late Medieval Western Europe——A Study of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

作为中世纪晚期至文艺复兴时期欧洲传播广泛的“东方游记”,《曼德维尔游记》以跨界文学实践,将来自各方的朝圣记录与东方见闻演绎成为一部兼收并蓄的博学之作;同时又以独特的欧洲视野,将古典地理学传统与圣经宇宙学框架整合为一幅令人遐想的世界图景,创造了近代早期拉丁基督教东方叙事经久不衰的文本权威与诠释魅力。深入考察该作品蕴含的多元文本特征、神圣空间观念与旅行写作意图,不仅能够还原欧洲旅行叙事虚实重叠的中世纪传统,而且有助于凸显中世纪东方在近代早期欧洲思想文化发展进程中的独特地位及其影响,进而释放中世纪文学作为一种文化史现象与全球史场景应有的丰富意义空间。

The travels of Mandeville is the most popular Oriental Travel writing of the late Middle Ages.It is an erudite work that combines pilgrimage records and the Oriental knowledge from various sources through cross-border literary practice;At the same time,with a unique European perspective,it integrates the traditions of classical geography and the framework of biblical cosmology into a dreamy picture of the world,creating the enduring textual authority and spreading charm of the early modern Latin Christian Oriental narrative.An in-depth study of the text features,world concepts and religious consciousness contained in this writing form can not only restore the complex boundary between factual and fictional medieval travel writing,but also helps to highlight the unique position and influence of the medieval East in the development of European ideology and culture in early modern times,thereby releasing the rich meaning space that medieval literature should have as a cultural history and medieval global history phenomenon.