Margery Kempe
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.
Anthony Bale Libri
Anthony Bale si dedica alla letteratura e cultura medievale, con un focus particolare sulle complesse relazioni tra cristiani ed ebrei nell'Inghilterra medievale. Ha curato edizioni e tradotto testi medievali significativi, inclusa una recente versione de Il Libro di Margery Kempe, e indaga inoltre i viaggi e i pellegrinaggi tra l'Inghilterra e la Terra Santa nel tardo Medioevo. Il suo lavoro offre prospettive acute sulle diverse esperienze e scambi culturali del mondo medievale.
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
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.