Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology

518 Pages·2019·20.179 MB·English

by  Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TRAVEL

M E DI E VA L
E NGL ISH
T R AV E L
A Critical Anthology
edited by
ANTHONY BALE
and
SEBASTIAN SOBECKI
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Contents
List of Figures and Maps xi
About This Book xiii
Abbreviations xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction by Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki 1
I. ESSAYS
1. Places, Real and Imagined by Anthony Bale 17
2. Maps and the Organization of Space by Alfred Hiatt 26
3. Encounters by Matthew Boyd Goldie 36
4. Codes and Languages by Jonathan Hsy 44
5. Trade and Exchange by Sebastian Sobecki 50
6. Politics and Diplomacy by Joanna Bellis 56
II. ANTHOLOGY
7. Sæwulf 67
8. The Description of the World: A Summary from Polychronicon,
Book I ed by Julia Boffey 91
9. Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on Richard I and
the Third Crusade 122
10. Sir John Mandeville’s Prologue 133
11. Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe (extracts) 137
12. The Division of the World, ed by A. S. G. Edwards 145
13. St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land 151
14. Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire’s Tale’, from The Canterbury Tales 159