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02418aam a22003011i 4500 001 CBC2564027B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240611010142 008 240424r20242023nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1324064579 020 $a 9781324064572 040 $a GCmBT $b eng $c GCmBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a D117 $b .B35 2024 082 04 $a 909.07 $2 23/eng/20240426 100 1 $a Bale, Anthony, $d 1975- $e author. 245 12 $a A travel guide to the Middle Ages : $b the world through medieval eyes / $c Anthony Bale. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c 2024. 300 $a xvi, 352 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 rumored 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 travelers thought of the West on their own travels"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and indexes. 650 0 $a Middle Ages. 650 0 $a Civilization, Medieval. 651 0 $a Europe $x Travel. $y To 1500 $x Travel. 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): $a Bale, Anthony, 1975- $t Travel guide to the Middle Ages $d London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023 $z 9780241530849 941 $a 1 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240611031224.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBC2564027B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search