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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Anthony Bale
From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.
Autor: Bale, Anthony
EAN: 9780241530849
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 336
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02.11.2023
Untertitel: The World Through Medieval Eyes
Schlagworte: Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte Großbritannien / Reisebeschreibung Literaturwissenschaft Mittelalter Großbritannien / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht Britannien Brite Britisch Großbritannien
Größe: 42 × 163 × 240
Gewicht: 676 g