A Travel Guide To The Middle Ages by Anthony Bale
The World Through Medieval Eyes
An immersive, witty faux-guidebook that reconstructs what it was like to travel in the late medieval world, drawing on pilgrims’ journals, merchants’ letters, maps, and devotional texts to chart journeys across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. It explains the practicalities of the road—routes and sea passages, safe-conducts, lodging, money, food, hygiene, and the perils of bandits, storms, and disease—alongside the spiritual and commercial motives that sent people to shrines and great cities. Blending vivid quotations with clear guidance, it captures both the strangeness and the familiarity of medieval mobility, turning archival fragments into a lively, sensory itinerary.
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- 2023
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