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Rosamund
Allen, ed.
Eastward
Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550..
Manchester
University Press, August 2004.
288pp.
Publisher's
recommended price:
Hardback
ISBN
0719066905, £49.99
Paperback ISBN 0719066913, £16.99
Eastward Bound looks at travel and
travellers in the medieval period. An international range of
distinguished contributors offer discussions on a wide range of themes,
from the experiences of Crusaders on campaign, to the lives of
pilgrims, missionaries and traders in the Middle East. It examines
their modes of travel, equipment and methods of navigation, and
considers their expectations and experiences en route. The
contributions also look at the variety of motives - public and private
- behind the decision to travel eastwards. Other essays discuss the
attitudes of Middle-Eastern rulers to their visitors. In so doing they
provide a valuable perspective and insight into the behaviour of the
Europeans and non-Europeans alike. There have been few such accessible
volumes, covering such a broad range of material. The book will be of
use to students and scholars involved in the history, literature and
historical geography of the medieval period.
Contents: 1. The impact of the crusades on western geographical
knowledge - Bernard Hamilton
2. Sharing the sites: Medieval Jewish Travellers to the Land of Israel
- Elka Weber
3. Travel in the medieval Islamic world: The importance of patronage,
as illustrated by 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (and other
littérateurs) - Shawkat Toorawa
4. Just a bunch of dirty stories? Women in the 'Memoirs' of Usamah Ibn
Munqidh - Niall Christie
5. The mendicants as missionaries and travellers in the Near East in
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries - Andrew Jotischky
6. The intelligent pilgrim: Maps and medieval pilgrimage to the Holy
Land - Catherine Delano-Smith
7. Reviving the crusade: Sanudo's schemes and Vesconte's maps - Evelyn
Edson
8. The diversity of mankind in the Book of John Mandeville - Suzanne
Conklin Akbari
9. Travels with Margery: Pilgrimage in context - Rosalynn Voaden
10. Of smelly seas and ashen apples: Medieval German pilgrimage
literature - Anne Simon
11. Late medieval Spanish travellers in the East: Clavijo, Tafur,
Encina and Tarifa - Barry Taylor |
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