**“[An] immensely entertaining history.” —The New YorkerA 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 t...

This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts her life, and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotation from Kempe’s ...

Un caleidoscopico viaggio nel mondo medievale. Un libro che, come nei Racconti di Canterbury, ci restituisce l’immaginifico e il prosaico del viaggio al tempo del Medioevo, con gli occhi di pellegrini, commercianti, spie e santi, da ovest a est, passando per Costantinopoli, Gerusalemme, Etiopia e Cina. Dagli animati bazar di Tabriz alla misteriosa isola di Caldihe, dove si diceva che le pecore crescessero sugli alberi, dalla Via della Seta alle escursioni per le strade di Istanbul e Gerusa...

»Lebendig, spannend und erstaunlich. Hier erleben wir, was es heißt, in fremden Ländern unterwegs zu sein, damals wie heute«, schreibt John Arnold, Professor für Geschichte des Mittelalters in Cambridge, über »Reisen im Mittelalter«. Farbig und anschaulich erzählt der Historiker Anthony Bale, wie es war, im Mittelalter durch die Welt zu reisen.Ob Pilgerinnen oder Kaufleute, Ritter, Mönche oder Spione – schon damals packte die Menschen die Leidenschaft für das Reisen. Getrieben von ...

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 listeners on an odyssey across the medieval world.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...

The medieval Christian attitude towards Jews included a pervasive fear of violence enacted against Christians. Many Christians believed that Jews committed crimes against Christian children, Christ’s body and the Eucharist, leading them to conclude that Jews were out to destroy their religion and way of life. They retaliated with expulsions, riots and murders that systematically denied Jews the right to religious freedom and peace.Feeling Persecuted exposes the violence en...

現代人的旅行，都是從Google Maps、IG、旅遊網站開始，沒有網路的中世紀旅人——難道都兩手空空就出發？不！中世紀的人也需要避雷、找好住好吃好休息的旅遊指南！★既是第一線經驗談，也免不了一些想像成分！一本充滿旅行家的真實經歷與參雜古老幻想的中世紀旅遊指南。★從歐洲出發，再從亞洲循環一圈世界（什麼！哥倫布這時候還沒發現新大陸）。以中世紀旅人的視角，經過52個中世紀最繁華、大家最想去的城市。★從中世紀的旅人指南裡，發現時間已經來到了21世紀，我們和他們的生活還是極為相似。牙痛沒牙醫治療，大家都到這個教堂祈求治癒？出門旅行沒有人脈，一定要靠這個在各個城鎮通關？到異地水土不服怎麼解，這幾款良方請務必備在身上！罪孽太深如何消？這幾個地方都提供懺悔券，要幾年都有！「中世紀許多探索者、探險家、朝聖者、商人和十字軍，稱呼世界為『地球蘋果』，他們想嚐一嚐這個蘋果。」在中世紀人們抱著對於神的敬仰、財富的慾望、異國文化的好奇，而踏上旅行。倫敦大...

Blood is something that all humans share: a vital force that courses through our veins – the giver of life. This book gathers together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars which reflect on the religious, historical, and medical dimensions of blood. Written for a broad audience and illustrated with full colour plates, the essays encompass history, literature, art history, religious studies and medical humanities and explore some of the most challenging issues surrounding bloo...

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, an...

This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Gi...

'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!' The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the dramatic transformation of its heroine from failed businesswoman and lustful young wife to devout and chaste pilgrim. She vividly describes her prayers and visions, as well as the temptations in daily l...

Fragments of Tender Hearts debuts eleven captivating stories of passion, sacrifice, and destiny, where love is as powerful as it is dangerous. Meet Death and Nature personified, find liberty in defiance, and experience the heartbreak of fate as you explore unforgettable fantasy worlds. Follow dragons, sirens, demons, and fae through the inevitable consequences of love, and the tender hearts who bear the cost.But beware, gentle reader, for not all love stories h...