The first anthology dedicated to medieval English travel writing, with a focus on the later Middle Ages. It features concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part 1: Essays
- 1: Anthony Bale: Places, Real and Imagined
- 2: Alfred Hiatt: Maps and the Organisation of Space
- 3: A. Matthew Boyd Goldie: Encounters
- 4: Jonathan Hsy: Languages and Codes
- 5: Sebastian Sobecki: Trade and Exchange
- 6: Joanna Bellis: Politics and Diplomacy
- Part 2: Anthology
- 7: Saewulf
- 8: The Description of the World
- 9: Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on the Third Crusade
- 10: Sir John Mandeville's Prologue
- 11: Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe
- 12: The Division of the World
- 13: St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land
- 14: Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Squire's Tale'
- 15: Floris and Blancheflour
- 16: Jean Froissart, Chronicles, trans. Lord Berners
- 17: The Stacions of Rome
- 18: Richard Coer de Lyon
- 19: Channel crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
- 20: The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts)
- 21: John Page, The Siege of Rouen
- 22: The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye
- 23: Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Angliae
- 24: Gilbert Hay, The Buik of Alexander
- 25: The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage
- 26: William Wey's will
- 27: Documents of the English pilgrims at Rome
- 28: Two travellers' itineraries
- 29: John Kay, The Siege of Rhodes 1480
- 30: The Capitulation of Granada 1492
- 31: The Walsingham Ballad
- 32: Richard Torkington, Diaries of Englysshe Travell
- Part 3: Contexts
- 33: Commercial voyages
- 34: Diplomatic and military travel
- 35: Maps, rutters, and charts
- 36: Practical needs
- 37: Religious voyages
