Medieval travel writing. Travellers. John de Cora, c. 1320-1383 c. 1320-1383

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John de Cora, otherwise known as Jean Le Long d'Ypres, was a Benedictine monk at L'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin from about 1340 onwards. He studied the law in Paris. In March 1366 he became Abbe de Saint...

John de Cora, otherwise known as Jean Le Long d'Ypres, was a Benedictine monk at L'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin from about 1340 onwards. He studied the law in Paris. In March 1366 he became Abbe de Saint-Bertin at St Omer and during the period 1362 to 1370 he met with Pope Urban V at Avignon. He was responsible for a number of important French translations in 1351: 'Yteneraire Odric de Foro Julii, Livre Frere Jehan Hayton des merveilles des XIII royaulmes d'Aise', 'Ytineraire de la peregrinacion Frere Riculd', 'Traduction du Liber de Quibusdam ultramarinis partibus et praecipue de terra sancta', and his main work, 'Livre de l'Estat et la Gouvernance du Grant Kaan de Cathay, Souverain Empereur des Tartares', a translation of 'De statu magni Canis', providing an account of the Mongol Empire of Cathay and Franciscan missions to China, c. 1328-c. 1334.

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