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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

By: Anthony Bale
Narrated by: Esh Alladi
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From the medieval souks 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 listener 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 and the Antipodes, this is no ordinary travel guide. From profane pilgrim badges and Venetian laxatives to encounters with bandits and trysts with mysterious medieval witches, this book mixes fact and folklore to offer an entertaining encyclopaedia of wondrous stories and peoples.

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 blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the listener a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.

©2023 Anthony Bale (P)2023 Penguin Audio Middle Ages Travel Writing & Commentary Europe Medieval Tradition Crusade Social Sciences Africa Imperialism Great Britain

Critic reviews

A joyful, erudite book, and a global Middle Ages for our times. Journeying from a monastery in Wiltshire to Ethiopia, India and China, Anthony Bale reinvents the period through its intrepid travellers, and in the process redefines the period (Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 Maps)
Intrepid, entertaining, and unfailingly curious, he has now travelled far and wide in their company; balancing sympathy with scepticism, he marvellously reconfigures the contours of our forebears' knowledge (Marina Warner)
Rich and wonderful. This is the world as you have never seen it before - and as it will never be seen again. And it's more surprising, extraordinary and bizarre than anything you can possibly imagine (Ian Mortimer, author of The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England)
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