{"product_id":"9780241993408","title":"A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages : The World Through Medieval Eyes","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Bale, Anthony \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ec 500 CE to c 1000 CE\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 25 July 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129 x 29 | 326g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz to the mysterious island of Caldihe, Anthony Bale brings history alive, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry BrottonA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is no ordinary travel guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourney alongside scholars, spies and saints. From western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world. This is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, it offers the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world - a world of stories, desire and fantasies, of cherished pasts and longed-for futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' The New Yorker'Serious scholarship and a sightseer’s unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel' Observer‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses‘An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55429250613624,"sku":"9780241993408","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9780241993408_adfec4aa-0a05-4fdb-9cdf-1fa052c0dbf3.jpg?v=1773927383","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780241993408","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}