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

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324064587
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes written by Anthony Bale and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China and beyond. Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invites readers on an odyssey across the medieval world, recounting the advice that circulated among those venturing to the road for pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy, and war. Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes and the ends of the earth, Bale provides indispensable information on the exchange rate between Bohemian ducats and Venetian groats, medieval cures for seasickness, and how to avoid extortionist tour guides and singing sirens. He takes us from the streets of Rome, more ruin than tourist spot, and tours of the Khan’s court in Beijing to Mamluk-controlled Jerusalem, where we ride asses across the holy terrain, and bustling bazaars of Tabriz. We also learn of rumored fantastical places, like ones where lambs grow on trees and giant canes grow fruit made of gems. And we are offered a glimpse of what non-European travelers thought of the West on their own travels. Using previously untranslated contemporaneous documents from a colorful range of travelers, and from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, North Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a witty and unforgettable exploration of how Europeans understood—and often misunderstood—the larger world.

The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times

Author : Jonathan W. Stokes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101998180
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times written by Jonathan W. Stokes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kid-friendly series that makes history approachable, engaging, and funny! From the publishing house that brought you the Who Was? books. The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times: A Handbook for Time Travelers is a snappy, informative, illustrated travel guide with everything the sensible time traveler needs to know, like: * Where I can find the best hovel? * What are my healthcare options if I catch the Black Plague? * How can I avoid being attacked by pillaging Huns? * And most importantly, why on earth would anyone want to travel back to medieval times? This book is designed as a parody of Fodor's guides, complete with humorous maps, reviews of places to stay and top attractions (don't miss a jousting tournament . . . but watch out for lances!), and tips on whom to have lunch with (murderous Queen Olga of Kiev, naturally--just don't eat or drink anything around her!). If you had a time travel machine and could take a vacation anywhere in history, this is the only guidebook series you would need.

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Author : Arthur Percival Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages written by Arthur Percival Newton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Author : John Block Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135591016
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages written by John Block Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445855097
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England written by Ian Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back To The 14th century. This text sets out to explain what life was like inthe most immediate way, through taking the reader To The Middle Ages.

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Author : Arthur Percival Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages written by Arthur Percival Newton and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Secondary Library
ISBN 13 : 9780836859089
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Gareth Stevens Secondary Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages, learn about the difficulty of traveling in medieval Europe and how people coped with the obstacles. With few maps, people traveled by following landmarks. The rich rode, while the poor walked. Bandits sometimes lay in wait for both. While some people traveled to find new lands to explore or goods to trade, others moved simply to find new lands to farm. Traders traveled the Silk Road across Europe and Asia or the Spice Route across the seas. Explore how trade and travel changed the lives of medieval peoples. Book jacket.

Your Guide to Medieval Society

Author : Rachel Stuckey
Publisher : Destination: Middle Ages
ISBN 13 : 9780778729976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Guide to Medieval Society by : Rachel Stuckey

Download or read book Your Guide to Medieval Society written by Rachel Stuckey and published by Destination: Middle Ages. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack your bags for a trip that will last one thousand years! Destination: Middle Ages takes you on a guided tour of Europe and the Middle East from the 5th to the 15th centuries. If you think these were the Dark Ages, think again! This was an age or great cultural advances and artistic achievements, of inspiring rulers and courageous warriors, and of bustling towns alive with merchants and entertainers. Book jacket.

Travel & Travellers Middle Ages

Author : Arthur Percival Newton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136197605
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Travel & Travellers Middle Ages written by Arthur Percival Newton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Medieval Invention of Travel

Author : Shayne Aaron Legassie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022644273X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Invention of Travel written by Shayne Aaron Legassie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in unprecedented numbers and transformed traditional conceptions of human mobility. Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array of sources to develop original readings of canonical figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel writers. As Shayne Aaron Legassie demonstrates, the Middle Ages inherited a Greco-Roman model of heroic travel, which viewed the ideal journey as a triumph over temptation and bodily travail. Medieval travel writers revolutionized this ancient paradigm by incorporating practices of reading and writing into the ascetic regime of the heroic voyager, fashioning a bold new conception of travel that would endure into modern times. Engaging methods and insights from a range of disciplines, The Medieval Invention of Travel offers a comprehensive account of how medieval travel writers and their audiences reshaped the intellectual and material culture of Europe for centuries to come.

Travel in the Middle Ages

Author : Jean Verdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Travel in the Middle Ages written by Jean Verdon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a companion to his previous volume Night in the Middles Ages, Jean Verdon offers insight into the pitfalls and perils of travelling during medieval times. Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and people - out of want or necessity - to get from place to place. Verdon contends that a journey in the current sense, suggesting both the movement of a person who travels to a fairly distant place and philosophical ideas of distraction and flight from self, did not exist in the Middle Ages. Indeed, he says, nothing either in the means of communication or in the landscape encouraged travel. And yet, Verdon points out, the world of the Middle Ages was one of unceasing movement.

Your Guide to Trade in the Middle Ages

Author : James Bow
Publisher : Destination: Middle Ages
ISBN 13 : 9780778730521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Your Guide to Trade in the Middle Ages written by James Bow and published by Destination: Middle Ages. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack your bags for a trip that will last one thousand years! Destination: Middle Ages takes you on a guided tour of Europe and the Middle East from the 5th to the 15th centuries. If you think these were the Dark Ages, think again! This was an age of great cultural advances and artistic achievements, of inspiring rulers and courageous warriors, and of bustling towns alive with merchants and entertainers. Follow the trade routes that lead to the Middle Ages. Witness the expansion of trade and commerce that led to the growth of towns and the formation of guilds. Find out how advancements in shipbuilding helped open up the world to merchants such as Marco Polo, who competed to meet the increasing demand for luxury items. Book jacket.

Medieval Towns, Trade, and Travel

Author : Lynne Elliott
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778713500
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Towns, Trade, and Travel written by Lynne Elliott and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the towns, trades, crafts, and travelers in Medieval Europe.

Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages

Author : Paul B. Newman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786445356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages written by Paul B. Newman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation and trade in the Middle Ages were more developed and varied than is commonly thought. This book examines why medieval Europeans traveled--from making pilgrimages to engaging in international trade--and surveys in detail how they traveled, both by land and water. Travel and trade were inextricably linked to transportation, and over time an infrastructure of roads, bridges, and accommodations grew across Europe, enabling people and goods to move around the continent and beyond. Also explored are the hardships faced by medieval travelers, including storms at sea, avalanches in the Alps, the presence of pirates and robbers, and the fundamental problems of finding a meal and shelter.

Adventures in the Middle Ages

Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781550745405
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Middle Ages written by Linda Bailey and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Josh, Emma and Libby as they go back to the Middle Ages.

Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Author : Irving Levine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages written by Irving Levine and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Travel and Travelers

Author : John Romano
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487588046
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Travel and Travelers written by John Romano and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people – and not only Marco Polo – were on the move for a variety of different reasons. Assuming no previous knowledge of medieval civilizations, this volume allows readers to experience the excitement of men and women who ventured into new lands. By addressing cross-cultural interaction, religion, and travel literature, the collection sheds light on how travel shaped the way we perceive the world, while also connecting history to the contemporary era of globalization. Including a mix of complete sources, excerpts, and images, Medieval Travel and Travelers provides readers with opportunities for further reflection on what medieval people expected to find in foreign locales, while sparking curiosity about undiscovered spaces and cultures.