The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer By David Waines I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 978 184511 805 1 Summary:…
International Medieval Congress to focus on Travel and Exploration
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…
Seville : between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1248-1492 : pre-Columbus commercial routes from and to Seville
The following study attempts to show how the city of this river, Seville, became an important international port between the years 1248 and 1492, well before Spain’s Golden Age and the arrival of silver from the Americas.
Time, Travel and Political Communities: Transportation and Travel Routes in Sixth- and Seventh-century Northumbria
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.
The Otherworld Yet Real-Time Exploits of Gregory the Great
This article examines the idea of the otherworldly in medieval experience from the perspective of Gregory the Great’s mission to the English. The paper reviews the history of travel literature in the medieval world, how Britain’s remoteness and no known history placed it into the realm of the otherworldly…