Marco Polo

Gone Medieval

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One of history’s great adventurers, Marco Polo’s accounts of his travels - dictated while in prison - were exceptionally widely read, introducing Europeans to the then-mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty.

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis finds out more about Marco Polo and his travels from historian Laurence Bergreen, author of Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:43.0	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval,
0:45.0	I'm Matt Lewis.
0:46.0	Some names are seared into the popular consciousness,
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