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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Samuel N. C.Lieu<i>Marco Spurio?</i>: Marco Polo on the Church of the East in Chinahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NQNTCIEJhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NQNTCIEJhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NQNTCIEJErica C. D.HunterŠalmūtā Šapīrtā: Festschrift for Rifaat Y. Ebied in Honour of His Contributions to Semitic StudiesPiscataway, New JerseyGorgias Press2023329-360Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 65The Church of the East was the main form of organized Christianity east of Iran during the period of Mongol domination of Central Asia and the only form encountered by medieval Western travellers. The <i>Il Milione</i> of Marco Polo contains numerous passages on the ‘Nestorians’ who flourished along the main arteries of trade and in the Mongol Court. The present article examines two important passages found in the unique Z (Latin) Manuscript of the <i>Il Milione</i>, one on the monastery in Zhenjiangfu founded by a Turkic Christian missionary and the other on the ‘crypto-Christians’ of Fuzhou, and assesses their relevance to the ‘Did Marco Polo go to China?’ debate as both incidents appear to have external corroboration.
Lieu, Samuel N. C. “Marco Spurio?: Marco Polo on the Church of the East in China.” In Šalmūtā Šapīrtā: Festschrift for Rifaat Y. Ebied in Honour of His Contributions to Semitic Studies, edited by Erica C. D. Hunter, 329–60. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 65. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2023.
Samuel N. C. Lieu, Marco Spurio?: Marco Polo on the Church of the East in China,” in Šalmūtā Šapīrtā: Festschrift for Rifaat Y. Ebied in Honour of His Contributions to Semitic Studies, ed. Erica C. D. Hunter, Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 65 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2023), 329–60.