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A Mission to the Medieval Middle East - The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Hardcover, New)
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A Mission to the Medieval Middle East - The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Hardcover, New)
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In the years 1432-3 Bertandon de la Brocquiere, fifteenth-century
gentleman and confidante to the Duke of Burgundy, undertook a
pilgrimage to the Middle East and beyond. Though posing as a
pilgrim de la Brocquiere was in fact a spy. He travelled to Ghent,
Venice, Palestine and Damascus, eventually reaching as far as
Constantinople at the important time leading up to the destruction
of the city and the final fall of the Byzantine Empire. He met with
both the Pope and with the Byzantine Emperor and his court. His
account remains an excellent source on politics, leading figures
and customs of the Mamluk and Ottoman lands, the early use of
gunpowder by the Mamluks, and provides a careful analysis of
Turkish military tactics. Written at the behest of the Duke of
Burgundy, for the purpose of facilitating a new crusade, it also
remains one of the key documents for the history of the Crusades in
the late Middle Ages.
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