{"product_id":"the-cambridge-guide-to-global-medieval-travel-writing-9781108493680","title":"The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing","description":"The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, providing unrivalled insight into the experiences of early travellers. Paying special attention to race, gender and manuscript culture, the volume's vast geographical and linguistic range provides expert coverage of Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese literature. An essential resource for teaching and research, the collection challenges established views of the Middle Ages and Western ideas of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSobecki, Sebastian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. His forthcoming books include The Cambridge History of the Literature of London: Vol. 1, The Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose, and two volumes for the Oxford edition of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, 1598-1600. He is also working on a co-authored monograph for Cambridge on the reception of Christine de Pizan in England.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661237256466,"sku":"9781108493680","price":167.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87e4efe8-8462-431b-945d-193e0ae2138e.jpg?v=1760438545","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cambridge-guide-to-global-medieval-travel-writing-9781108493680","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}