{"product_id":"a-travel-guide-to-the-middle-ages-anthony-bale","title":"A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages (Anthony Bale)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz to the mysterious island of Caldihe, Anthony Bale brings history alive, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003eis no ordinary travel guide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJourney alongside scholars, spies and saints. From western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world. This is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, it offers the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world - a world of stories, desire and fantasies, of cherished pasts and longed-for futures.\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Serious scholarship and a sightseer's unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured' Dr Helen Castor, author of \u003ci\u003eBlood and Roses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places' Seb Falk, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Light Ages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnthony Bale\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. He is a former President of the New Chaucer Society. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe: A Mixed Life \u003c\/i\u003e(Reaktion Books) and \u003ci\u003eA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: the World through Medieval Eyes \u003c\/i\u003e(Penguin). He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2011) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023-26). He has held fellowships at institutions including Harvard University, The Huntington Library and the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the British Academy.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 464 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65791340118365,"sku":"K097237697","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9723769700001A.jpg?v=1788375565","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/a-travel-guide-to-the-middle-ages-anthony-bale","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}