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'.
Author(s): Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 517
City: Oxford
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
