Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology

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Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: 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. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on 'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps the Organsiation of Space', 'Encounters', 'Languages and Codes', 'Trade and Exchange', and 'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organising principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains 26 texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucer's Squire's Tale, in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes 1480, and Richard Torkington's Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: 'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps, rutters, and charts', 'practical needs', and 'religious voyages'. Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures and Maps About This Book Abbreviations Contributors Introduction by Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki I. ESSAYS 1. Places, Real and Imagined by Anthony Bale 2. Maps and the Organization of Space by Alfred Hiatt 3. Encounters by Alfred Hiatt 4. Codes and Languages by Jonathan Hsy 5. Trade and Exchange by Sebastian Sobecki 6. Politics and Diplomacy by Joanna Bellis II. ANTHOLOGY 7. Sæwulf 8. The Description of the World: A Summary from Polychronicon, Book I ed by Julia Boffey 9. Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on Richard I and the Third Crusade 10. Sir John Mandeville’s Prologue 11. Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe (extracts) 12. The Division of the World, ed by A. S. G. Edwards 13. St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land 14. Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire’s Tale’, from The Canterbury Tales 15. Floris & Blancheflour 16. Jean Froissart’s Chronicles, Translated by Lord Berners by 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, ed by Joanna Bellis 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: A Jerusalem Chapel in Wiltshire 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: The Return Journey from the Holy Land (extracts) III. CONTEXTS 33. Commercial Voyages 34. Diplomatic and Military Travel 35. Maps, Rutters, and Charts 36. Practical Needs, Languages, and Currencies 37. Religious Voyages Index