TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES (PB)

Drawing on previously untranslated accounts from Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa and Russia, this is a travel guide which blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, and offers the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world - one of stories, desire and fantasies, cherished pasts and longed-for futures. Journey alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the ends of the world, and discover profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives, flying coffins, encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.