{"product_id":"a-travel-guide-to-the-middle-ages-the-world-through-medieval-eyes-9780241530849","title":"A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 02 November 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who traveled across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory readers will love this gift!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich and wonderful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the world as you've never seen it before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Mortimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA joyful, erudite book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA global Middle Ages for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Brotton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who traveled across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourneying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined. . . . a book to be savored. Dr. Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn enthralling journey into the past and across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeb Falk, author of The Light Ages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich and wonderful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the world as you've never seen it before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Mortimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA global Middle Ages for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Brotton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 676g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 163 x 244 x 40 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780241530849\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Bale","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44729883820282,"sku":"9780241530849","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1699024672744_book.jpg?v=1699105574","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/a-travel-guide-to-the-middle-ages-the-world-through-medieval-eyes-9780241530849","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}