From: bq434@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael A. Chance)
Subject: Books by/about Medieval Travellers
Reply-To: bq434@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael A. Chance)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 17:24:11 GMT


Hallo!

Recently in the rec.arts.books Usenet newsgroup, one of the readers,
Margaret Gardiner, requested information about books written by or
about medieval travellers.  After much response, she has just posted
the results of her compilation, which she has graciously allowed me to
re-post here on the Rialto.  Should anyone have further additions to
make, please send them to her at "gardiner@lib.uwo.ca"

Here then is her list:

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 	Thanks to all who gave recommendations for reading on medieval
 travel.  I have put together the following list from r.a.b. posts and
 emails at the request of a couple of people who would like to see the
 complete list. 
 
 _The Vinland Sagas_ (Norse discovery of NA) in Penguin
 _Seven Viking Romances_ in Penguin
 _The Witness and the Other World_ by Mary Campbell
 _Wonders of the East <1001 ) 1497>_ Jordanus Catalani, Bp of Columbum,
 fl 1330. Translated from Latin, 1839 by Henry Yule
 _Egeria's Travels_
 _The Travels of Sir John Mandeville_
 _The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville_ by Josephine Bennett
 _Marvellous Possessions_ by Stephen Greenblatt
 _English Travellers to Italy_ by George Bruner Parks
 _English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages_ Jean Jusserand
 _Daily living in the twelfth century_ by Urban Tigner Holmes Jr.
 _The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: a Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century_
 by Ross E. Dunn (London: Croom Helm, 1986)
 _The Travels of Marco Polo_ in Penguin
 _Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages_ edited by Elkan Nathan Adler
 "Health problems of the medieval traveller" paper given by 
 Margaret Wade Labarge at a recent conference
 _Invisible Cities_ by Italo Calvino ("stories that Calvino imagines 
 Polo would have told the great Khan about the cities in his realm")
 _Sexing the Cherry_ and _Passion_ by Jeanette Winterson ("combination 
 of Arabian Nights and historical novels")
 
 	As I looked for copies of the above (still looking in some cases)
 I found other titles that may be of interest:
 _Jan van Linschoten: the Dutch Marco Polo_ (1563-1611) by Charles McKew Parr
 _Medieval travellers: the rich and restless_ by Margaret Wade Labarge
 _Jewish travellers in the twelfth century_ by Yosef Levanon
 
 	There was one suggestion which I cannot find ) so far: "story 
 of a medieval scholar named Alexander Neckham" ) the name of Alexander
 Neckham might be in the title.
 
 	In response to an email, I remembered a book I had on my list 
 of must reads at some time:
 _Prince Henry Sinclair: an expedition to the New World in 1398_ by 
 Frederick J. Pohl (not the science fiction writer) NY: Clarkson Potter, 1974.
 
 	The fictional account based on the above book is _Sword of the
 North_ by Richard White (Ottawa, IL: Greenhills Publishers, 1983).
 
 	And last but not least, thank you for those who tried
 to help me remember the title of the book about "Nicholas Freer" the
 Renaissance scholar who travelled from England to Italy to study. I 
 hang my head in shame at my poor memory.  The book is _John Free: from
 Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century_ by RosamondT Joscelyne
 Mitchell (London: Longmans, Green, [1955]. 
 
 Margaret
 
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Enjoy!

Mikjal Annarbjorn
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