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Ludolph von Suchem's Description of the Holy Land, and of the Way Thither - Written in the Year A.D. 1350 (Paperback)
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Ludolph von Suchem's Description of the Holy Land, and of the Way Thither - Written in the Year A.D. 1350 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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Beyond the fact that he made a journey to the Holy Land between
1336 and 1341, very little is known about Ludolf von Suchem (whose
first name may in fact have been Rudolf). However, his work has
long been regarded as a major source of information about the
eastern Mediterranean in the fourteenth century, owing to its high
level of detail. Ludolf states his intention to describe the
region, its buildings, towns, fortified places, people, customs,
stories and legends, drawing on both his own observations, and on
information from the 'kings, princes, nobles and lords' with whom
he spent days and nights in conversation. Some stories are clearly
travellers' tales, but others, like his account of the fall of Acre
(1291), based on reports by eyewitnesses, are both full and
convincing. This English translation, by Aubrey Stewart
(1844-1918), of Ludolf's Latin text was published in 1895.
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