| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 498 pages): illustrations, maps |
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| Summary |
"Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology' is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell.The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'" --Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki -- Part 1: Essays -- Places, Real and Imagined / Anthony Bale -- Maps and the Organisation of Space / Alfred Hiatt -- Encounters / Matthew Boyd Goldie -- Codes and Languages / Jonathan Hsy -- Trade and Exchange / Sebastian Sobecki -- Politics and Diplomacy / Joanna Bellis -- Part 2: Anthology -- Saewulf -- The Description of the World: A summary from Polychronicon, Book I / Julia Boffey -- Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on Richard I and the Third Crusade -- Sir John Mandeville's Prologue -- Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe (extracts) -- The Division of the World / A. S. G. Edwards -- St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land -- Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Squire's Tale', from The Canterbury Tales -- Floris & Blancheflour -- Jean Froissart's Chronicles, trans. Lord Berners -- The Stacions of Rome -- Richard Coer de Lyon -- Channel crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure -- The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts) -- John Page, The Siege of Rouen / Joanna Bellis -- The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye -- Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Angliae -- Gilbert Hay, The Buik of Alexander -- The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage -- William Wey's Will: a Jerusalem chapel in Wiltshire -- Documents of the English pilgrims at Rome -- Two travellers' itineraries -- John Kay, The Siege of Rhodes, 1480 -- The Capitulation of Granada 1492 -- The Walsingham Ballad -- Richard Torkington, Diaries of Englysshe Travell: The return journey from the Holy Land -- Part 3: Contexts -- Commercial voyages -- Diplomatic and military travel -- Maps, rutters, and charts -- Practical needs, languages, and currencies -- Religious voyages. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
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Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
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Travel writing. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Travel writing -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Europe. |
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Travel writing -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
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Middle East. |
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
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Travelers' writings, British -- Bibliography.
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Travelers' writings, British. |
| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Bibliography.
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History.
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Bale, Anthony, 1975- editor.
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Sobecki, Sebastian I., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 019873378X 9780198733782 (DLC) 2018958824 (OCoLC)1034576337 |
| ISBN |
9780192662057 (electronic book) |
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0192662058 (electronic book) |
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019873378X |
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9780198733782 |
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