Popular notions that the trackway that skirts the southern edge of the North Downs once served as the principal thoroughfare for pilgrims travelling to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury are commonplace.
The Pilgrims’ Way Revisited: The use of the North Downs main trackway and the Medway crossings by medieval travellers
April 8, 2011 By
Bibliography Japan and the Japanese in printed works in Europe in the sixteenth century
March 13, 2011 By
Bibliography Japan and the Japanese in printed works in Europe in the sixteenth century By João Paulo Oliveira e Costa Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies, No.14 (2007) Introduction: Japan was practically isolated from the rest of the world when the first Portuguese disembarked there, in 1543. In Europe, it was only known that beyond China there […]
SINO-WESTERN CONTACTS UNDER THE MONGOL EMPIRE
February 6, 2011 By
SINO-WESTERN CONTACTS UNDER THE MONGOL EMPIRE By Herbert Franke Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol.6 (1966) Introduction: Contacts between Chinese civilization and that of the West — whatever we take “West” to mean in this context — have a long and tortuous history which for some periods is still far from […]
Commercial Travel and Hospitality in the Kings’ sagas
October 8, 2010 By
The article argues that trade and hospitality were inseparable until the High Middle Ages; merchants had to visit the emporium in the role of guest in order to have the protection of the local chieftain or lord.
Hakluyt Society books to be available as Print on Demand and ebooks
September 30, 2010 By
Ashgate Publishing has announced that hundreds of books from the Hakluyt Society Publications series will soon be available again, including many important translations of medieval texts. The publications are now being made available in a Print-on-Demand format, with ebook versions to go on sale starting in December. The Hakluyt Society has published over 350 scholarly […]
Classical and modern hospitality: the Benedictine case
September 29, 2010 By
The example of monastic hospitality shows that contemporary monastic hospitality has its foundations in much earlier practices and anthropological accounts.
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
July 20, 2010 By
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer By David Waines I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 978 184511 805 1 Summary: Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world’s truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left an account in his own words of […]
International Medieval Congress to focus on Travel and Exploration
June 30, 2010 By
The International Medieval Congress (IMC), the largest academic conference in Great Britain, will be featuring some of the world’s finest medieval minds as they present the advantages yet inevitable dangers of travel in the medieval world. From 12-15 July, over 1,500 scholars from around the world will gather at the University of Leeds for the eighteenth […]
Time, Travel and Political Communities: Transportation and Travel Routes in Sixth- and Seventh-century Northumbria
June 8, 2009 By
The focus of this paper is the role that transportation routes and technology played in structuring the developing political communities in northeast England during the sixth and centuries, particularly the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Afanasii Nikitin: An Orthodox Russian’s Spiritual Voyage in the Dar al-Islam, 1468–1475
January 1, 2009 By
Nikitin departed from Tver’, Russia, in 1468 in hopes of trading furs in the north Caspian region. He traveled as part of a group of private Tver’ merchants who regularly ventured along established trade routes.
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