A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who traveled across it. It contains profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives, and flying coffins, and offers a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you ve never seen it before Ian Mortimer A global Middle Ages for our times Jerry Brotton

A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who traveled across it.

History readers will love this gift!

Rich and wonderful.

This is the world as you've never seen it before.

Ian Mortimer

A joyful, erudite book.

A global Middle Ages for our times.

Jerry Brotton

A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who traveled across it.

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks.

Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives, and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.

Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.

‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined. . . . a book to be savored. Dr. Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses

An enthralling journey into the past and across the world.

This book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves.

Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages

Rich and wonderful.

This is the world as you've never seen it before.

Ian Mortimer

A global Middle Ages for our times.

Jerry Brotton

Weight: 676g
Dimension: 163 x 244 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241530849