Margery Kempe
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.
Anthony Bale Books
Anthony Bale's scholarship delves into medieval literature and culture, with a particular focus on the complex relationships between Christians and Jews in medieval England. He has not only translated and edited significant medieval texts, including a recent rendition of The Book of Margery Kempe, but also investigates the journeys and pilgrimages undertaken between England and the Holy Land during the later Middle Ages. His work offers insightful perspectives on the diverse experiences and cultural exchanges of the medieval world.
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.