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Margaret
Wade Labarge.
Medieval
Travellers: The Rich and Restless.
Orion,
2005.
ISBN
0753820412.
Paperback
reissue.
198 x
129 mm.
256pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £8.99
Adventure, religion,
politics, amusement - the story of how and why the upper-class
travelled in the medieval world. Margaret Wade Labarge takes a medley
of upper-class men and women of the thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth
centuries and illustrates how they travelled throughout their known
world. She presents such unforgettable and indefatigable travellers as
Eudes of Rouen, who averaged 2,500 miles a year during his term as
archbishop of Rouen; Mary, daughter of Edward I and a most restless
nun; Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Castilian ambassador to the court of
Timur at Samarkand; and Bertrandon de la Broquiere, the Burgundian
squire who disguised himself as a Turk in order to join a caravan
returning from Mecca. Their stories, and those of their fellow
travellers, underlie the mobility and the accompanying splendour which
kings and queens, lords, ladies and leading ecclesiastics took for
granted as the normal pattern of life in the later Middle Ages.
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