A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
Антъни Бейл. Пътеводител в Средновековието
Category: Medieval Europe
Language: Bulgarian

   A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China and beyond. Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invites readers on an odyssey across the medieval world, recounting the advice that circulated among those venturing to the road for pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy, and war. Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes and the ends of the earth, Bale provides indispensable information on the exchange rate between Bohemian ducats and Venetian groats, medieval cures for seasickness, and how to avoid extortionist tour guides and singing sirens. He takes us from the streets of Rome, more ruin than tourist spot, and tours of the Khan’s court in Beijing to Mamluk-controlled Jerusalem, where we ride asses across the holy terrain, and bustling bazaars of Tabriz. We also learn of rumoured fantastical places, like ones where lambs grow on trees and giant canes grow fruit made of gems. And we are offered a glimpse of what non-European travellers thought of the West on their own travels. Using previously untranslated contemporaneous documents from a colourful range of travellers, and from as far and wide as Türkiye, Iceland, North Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a witty and unforgettable exploration of how Europeans understood ― and often misunderstood ― the larger world.

Table of contents

Списък на илюстрациите

Предговор

1. Формата на света през 1491 г., или Предисловие с Мартин Бехайм 

2. В началната точка на маршрута: с Беатрис, Хенри и Томас

3. От Аахен до Болцано

4. Във Венеция и на път за Рим

5. През Великото море: от Венеция до Кипър

6. Разходка в Константинопол

7. През Светите земи до Вавилон

8. Пешеходна обиколка на Йерусалим

9. Отбивка до Етиопия

10. Пътищата на коприната

11. От Персия през Индия

12. Всички пътища водят към Ханбалик

13. Пътуване на запад

14. Примерен пътеводител за Антиподите и края на света

15. Епилог: краят на пътешествието

Източници

Бележки и литература

Бележки за цитатите

Бележки за илюстрациите

Благодарности

Показалец на топонимите

Показалец на имената

За автора

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