Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
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Anthony Bale's "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages" is a captivating journey through medieval history, blending scholarship and adventure. It offers a unique perspective on the world, featuring real and imagined places, and provides a vivid insight into how medieval people understood their world. With previously untranslated contemporary accounts from various regions, it offers a rich and unforgettable experience.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Anthony Bale's "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages" is a captivating and immersive journey through a medieval world. This extraordinary book takes readers on a remarkable adventure, exploring the rich tapestry of history from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world. It is not just a travel guide but a living atlas that blurs the line between real and imagined places, offering a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world. Through previously untranslated contemporary accounts from various regions, including Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, Bale brings to life the stories, desires, and fantasies of medieval people. This is a world of stories, desire, and fantasies, of cherished pasts and longed-for futures. "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages" is a rich and wonderful book that offers a fresh perspective on the world. It is a world as you've never seen it before, filled with stories and experiences that will leave you captivated. "Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history," writes Jerry Brotton in The New Yorker. "Serious scholarship and a sightseer's unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel." "Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written, and vividly imagined," writes Dr. Helen Castor in her review for The Observer. "A book to be savoured." "An enthralling journey into the past and across the world," writes Seb Falk in his review for The Light Ages. "This book takes us to barely imaginable places." "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages" is a must-read for anyone who loves history, travel, and adventure. It is a journey that will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the rich and complex world of the Middle Ages.
Weight: 324g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241993408
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