The Master’s Tale and the Slave’s Narrative: The Book of John Mandeville , Leo Africanus’ “A Geographical Historie of Africa” and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
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Abstract
The paper discusses influential European travel books specifically, The Book of John Mandeville (1360), the edited section of Leo Africanus’ “A Geographical Historie of Africa,” (1600) and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1591) in their reflection of the political, social, and commercial concerns of the Elizabethans whose overt yearning for a utopian Christian region in the travel books and as depicted in the play is in its essence a covert desire for free trade and the accumulation of wealth. The following study employs both a Foucauldian spatial interpretation of closed spaces as “places of intimacy” as mentioned in “Space, Power, and Knowledge” (Foucault 1993) and the moral, sentimental, and the “mercantile uses of Christianity” behind imperialism as put forth in J. A. Hobson’s (1905) Imperialism: A Study as a conduit to show how the travel tale of The Book of John Mandeville and the slave narrative of Leo Africanus share with many literary pieces of the period, including the play, Elizabethan dual values in assessing global affairs. The paper argues that The Jew of Malt portrays Christopher Marlowe’s criticism of the Elizabethans whose outlook on global relations is motivated by a stated spiritual purpose and clandestine materialistic desires. Key words : Renaissance; Drama; Travel; Slave Narrative; Marlowe; Leo Africanus; John Mandeville; Foucault. Resume : Le document examine les influents des livres de voyage europeens specifiquement, le livre de Jean de Mandeville (1360), la section editee de Leon l’Africain « Une Historie geographique de l’Afrique », (1600) et de Christopher Marlowe « Le Juif de Malte » (1591) dans leur reflexion sur les preoccupations politiques, sociales et commerciales ; des elisabethains dont manifeste le desir d’une region utopique chretienne dans les livres de voyage et tel que represente dans le jeu est dans son essence une volonte secrete de libre-echange et l’accumulation de richesses. L’etude qui suit emploie a la fois une interpretation foucaldienne spatiale des espaces clos comme des «lieux d’intimite » comme mentionne dans « Espace, Pouvoir et Savoir» (Foucault 1993) et la morale, sentimentale, et le «mercantile utilise du christianisme » derriere l’imperialisme en tant que mis en avant dans JA Hobson (1905) « l’imperialisme »: Une etude en tant qui conduit pour montrer comment le recit du voyage de le Livre de Jean de Mandeville et le recit esclave de Leon, l’Africain de partager avec de nombreux morceaux litteraires de l’epoque, y compris le jeu, les valeurs elisabethains double dans l’evaluation des affaires mondiales. Le document fait valoir que le Juif de malt depeint la critique de Christopher Marlowe des elisabethains dont les perspectives sur les relations mondiales est motivee par un but precis spirituelle et clandestins desirs materialistes. Mots cles : Renaissance; Le theâtre; Les voyages; Le recit esclave; Marlowe; Leon l’Africain; John Mandeville; Foucault.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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