Medieval English Travel

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies and Deputy Dean of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published widely on medieval literature, culture, and religion. In particular, his work has explored relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England and, more recently, the culture of medieval pilgrimage. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, and published a new translation and edition of The Book of Margery Kempe (Oxford University Press, 2015). His current work explores travel, books, and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages.Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on medieval English and early Tudor literature, especially Chaucer and Gower. He is author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki's Medieval English Travel is a wonderful anthology, in the full meaning of that word.

• Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki: Introduction Part 1: Essays 1: Anthony Bale: Places, Real and Imagined 2: Alfred Hiatt: Maps and the Organisation of Space 3: A. Matthew Boyd Goldie: Encounters 4: Jonathan Hsy: Languages and Codes 5: Sebastian Sobecki: Trade and Exchange 6: Joanna Bellis: Politics and Diplomacy Part 2: Anthology 7: Saewulf 8: The Description of the World 9: Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on the Third Crusade 10: Sir John Mandeville's Prologue 11: Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe 12: The Division of the World 13: St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land 14: Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Squire's Tale' 15: Floris & Blancheflour 16: Jean Froissart, Chronicles, trans. Lord Berners 17: The Stacions of Rome 18: Richard Coer de Lyon 19: Channel crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 20: The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts) 21: John Page, The Siege of Rouen 22: The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye 23: Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Angliae 24: Gilbert Hay, The Buik of Alexander 25: The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage 26: William Wey's will 27: Documents of the English pilgrims at Rome 28: Two travellers' itineraries 29: John Kay, The Siege of Rhodes 1480 30: The Capitulation of Granada 1492 31: The Walsingham Ballad 32: Richard Torkington, Diaries of Englysshe Travell Part 3: Contexts 33: Commercial voyages 34: Diplomatic and military travel 35: Maps, rutters, and charts 36: Practical needs 37: Religious voyages