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Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
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As the articles reprinted in this volume demonstrate, medieval men
and women were curious about the world around them. They wanted to
hear about distant lands and the various peoples who inhabited
them. Travellers' tales, factual such as that of Marco Polo, and
fictional, such as Chaucer's famous pilgrimage, entertained
audiences across Europe. Colorful mappaemundi placed in churches
illustrated these other lands and peoples for those who could not
read. Medieval travel literature was not only entertaining,
however, it was also informative, generating proto - ethnological
information about the world beyond Latin Christendom that provided
useful guidance for those such as merchants and missionaries who
intended to travel abroad. Merchants learned about safe travel
routes to foreign lands, about dangers to be avoided on the roads
and at sea, about cultural practices that might interfere with
their attempts at trade, and about products that would be suitable
for foreign markets. Churchmen read the reports of missionaries to
understand the beliefs of Muslims and other non-believers in order
to debate with them and to learn their languages. These articles
illustrate how travellers' reports in turn shaped the European
response to the world beyond Europe, and are set in context in the
editor's introduction.
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