Margery Kempe
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.
Anthony Bale Livres
Anthony Bale se spécialise dans la littérature et la culture médiévales, avec un accent particulier sur les relations complexes entre chrétiens et juifs dans l'Angleterre médiévale. Il a édité et traduit des textes médiévaux importants, y compris une version récente du Livre de Margery Kempe, et explore également les voyages et les pèlerinages entre l'Angleterre et la Terre Sainte à la fin du Moyen Âge. Son travail offre des perspectives perspicaces sur les diverses expériences et échanges culturels du monde médiéval.
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling 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.