TRAVEL AND TRAVELLERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by
ARTHUR PERCIVAL NEWTON

KEGAN PAUL TRENCH TRUBNER AND CO.
1926

First edition.

A collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of the time.
Part of The History of Civilization series.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION—THE CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES

By Professor Arthur Percival Newton
THE DECAY OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE DECLINE OF EXPLORATION, A.D. 300-500 By M. L. W. Laistner
CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGES, A.D. 500-800 By the Rev. Claude Jenkins
THE VIKING AGE By Professor Alan Mawer
ARAB TRAVELLERS AND MERCHANTS, A.D. 1000-1500 By Sir T. W. Arnold
TRADE AND COMMUNICATION IN EASTERN EUROPE, A.D. 800-1200 By Baron A. F. Meyendorff
THE OPENING OF THE LAND ROUTES TO CATHAY By Eileen Power
(i) " TRAVELLERS' TALES " OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION
(ii) EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA IN THE MIDDLE AGES By Professor Arthur Percival Newton
PRESTER JOHN AND THE EMPIRE OF ETHIOPIA By Sir E. Denison Ross
THE SEARCH FOR THE SEA ROUTE TO INDIA By Professor Edgar Prestage

24 x 15 cm. ix + 223 pp + 7 plates + publisher's catalogue of the series.

Good condition, cloth slightly faded on the spine. Prize inscription on the front pastedown, ffep removed. Foxing to the page edges, a little annotation in pencil. Closed tears to the margin of a couple of pages of the publisher's catalogue.