Medieval English Travel
A Critical Anthology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 September 2021
- ISBN 9780192848604
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 235x156x30 mm
- Weight 778 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 halftones 234
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Short description:
The first anthology dedicated to medieval English travel writing, with a focus on the later Middle Ages. It features 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.
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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 organized 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 and the Organization of Space', 'Encounters', 'Codes and Languages', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'.
The organizing 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 twenty-six texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucers '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, languages, and currencies', and 'religious voyages'.
Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki's Medieval English Travel is a wonderful anthology, in the full meaning of that word.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Essays
Places, Real and Imagined
Maps and the Organisation of Space
Encounters
Languages and Codes
Trade and Exchange
Politics and Diplomacy
Part 2: Anthology
Saewulf
The Description of the World
Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on the Third Crusade
Sir John Mandeville's Prologue
Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe
The Division of the World
St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Squire's Tale'
Floris & Blancheflour
Jean Froissart, 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
The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye
Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Angliae
Gilbert Hay, The Buik of Alexander
The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage
William Wey's will
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
Part 3: Contexts
Commercial voyages
Diplomatic and military travel
Maps, rutters, and charts
Practical needs
Religious voyages
