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Eastward bound: travel and travellers, 1050-1550

Eastward bound: travel and travellers, 1050-1550
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ISBN 0719066913 (pbk.)
9780719066917 (pbk.)
Title Eastward bound : travel and travellers, 1050-1550 / edited by Rosamund Allen
Publisher Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2004
Physical desc. xii, [4], 270 p. ; ill. (b&w), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-257) and index.
Contents Introduction / Rosamund Allen -- The impact of the crusades on western geographical knowledge / Bernard Hamilton -- Sharing the sites: medieval Jewish travellers to the Land of Israel / Elka Weber -- Travel in the medieval Islamic world: the importance of patronage, as illustrated by 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 629/1231) (and other littérateurs) / Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Just a bunch of dirty stories? women in the 'memoirs' of Usamah Ibn Munqidh / Niall Christie -- The mendicants as missionaries and travellers in the Near East in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Andrew Jotischky -- The intelligent pilgrim: maps and medieval pilgrimage to the Holy Land / Catherine Delano-Smith -- Reviving the crusade: Sanudo's schemes and Vesconte's maps / Evelyn Edson -- The diversity of mankind in The book of John Mandeville / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Travels with Margery: pilgrimage in context / Rosalynn Voaden -- Of smelly seas and ashen apples: two German pilgrims' view of the East / Anne Simon -- Late medieval Spanish travellers in the East: Clavijo, Tafur, Encina and Tarifa / Barry Taylor.
Subject Travel -- History
Voyages and travels
Civilization, Medieval
Travelers -- Middle East -- History
Travelers’ writings, European -- Middle East -- Early works to 1800
Middle East -- Description and travel
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