La Pérégrination vers l'occident. De Pékin à Paris, le voyage de deux moines nestoriens au temps de Marco Polo. Copte Notebooks “Nilotic and Mediterranean Egypt”

Notebooks “Nilotic and Mediterranean Egypt”

from Nabi experiments to the vast mythological narratives that Roussel revisits with constant force

Collection «Archéologiques« dirigée par Alain Ferdière

“Loeb Classical Library” collection

La Pérégrination vers l'occident. De Pékin à Paris, le voyage de deux moines nestoriens au temps de Marco Polo. Copte Notebooks “Nilotic and Mediterranean Egypt”1275. The Mongol Empire dominates Asia from China to Syria. Two Nestorian Christian Uyghur monks living near Beijing, Cauma and his disciple Marcos, decide to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. At the same time, Marco Polo is making the journey in the opposite direction. The war between the Mongols and the Muslim Mamluks of Egypt strands the two pilgrims in Mesopotamia. Through a series of surprising coincidences, Marcos will become the Catholicos of the