{"product_id":"9780241993408","title":"A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages : The World Through Medieval Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bale, Anthony \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/07\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 464 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241993408,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry BrottonA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is no ordinary travel guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' The New Yorker'Serious scholarship and a sightseer’s unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel' Observer‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses‘An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491523493932,"sku":"9780241993408","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241993408_410772ae-e580-49cd-91d8-4a537ad52bbb.jpg?v=1759660462","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241993408","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}