Medieval English Travel

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies and Deputy Dean of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published widely on medieval literature, culture, and religion. In particular, his work has explored relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England and, more recently, the culture of medieval pilgrimage. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, and published a new translation and edition of The Book of Margery Kempe (Oxford University Press, 2015). His current work explores travel, books, and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages. Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on medieval English and early Tudor literature, especially Chaucer and Gower. He is author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki: Introduction
Part 1: Essays
1: Anthony Bale: Places, Real and Imagined
2: Alfred Hiatt: Maps and the Organisation of Space
3: A. Matthew Boyd Goldie: Encounters
4: Jonathan Hsy: Languages and Codes
5: Sebastian Sobecki: Trade and Exchange
6: Joanna Bellis: Politics and Diplomacy
Part 2: Anthology
7: Saewulf
8: The Description of the World
9: Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle, on the Third Crusade
10: Sir John Mandeville's Prologue
11: Sir John Mandeville in India and Caldilhe
12: The Division of the World
13: St Bridget of Sweden in the Holy Land
14: Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Squire's Tale'
15: Floris & Blancheflour
16: Jean Froissart, Chronicles, trans. Lord Berners
17: The Stacions of Rome
18: Richard Coer de Lyon
19: Channel crossings in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
20: The Book of Margery Kempe (extracts)
21: John Page, The Siege of Rouen
22: The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye
23: Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Angliae
24: Gilbert Hay, The Buik of Alexander
25: The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage
26: William Wey's will
27: Documents of the English pilgrims at Rome
28: Two travellers' itineraries
29: John Kay, The Siege of Rhodes 1480
30: The Capitulation of Granada 1492
31: The Walsingham Ballad
32: Richard Torkington, Diaries of Englysshe Travell
Part 3: Contexts
33: Commercial voyages
34: Diplomatic and military travel
35: Maps, rutters, and charts
36: Practical needs
37: Religious voyages