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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages : The World Through Medieval Eyes - 9780241530849

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages : The World Through Medieval Eyes

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Author: Bale, Anthony

c 500 CE to c 1000 CE

Published on 2 November 2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Viking) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 448 pages
163 x 244 x 40 | 672g

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.