Travels and travelogues in the middle ages / 
edited by Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine. 
 - viii, 298 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - AMS studies in the middle ages,  no. 28  0270-6261 ; .
 - AMS studies in the Middle Ages ;  no. 28. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Mandeville's travels : a Rihla in disguise / Ana Pinto -- "They are like beasts, for they have no law" : ethnography and constructions of human difference in late-Medieval translations of Marco Polo's Book / Marianne O'Doherty -- Conveying the unimaginable : Odoric of Pordenone's travels and their vernacular translations / Richard Maber, Angela Tregoning -- The Pierpont Morgan Library manuscript M.723 : illustrations of Hayton's La Fleur des histoires d'Orient / Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine -- Margery Kempe and Italy : sacred space and the community in her soul / Christopher Roman -- Stairway to hell : infernal journeys in some Old and Middle English texts / Katrin Rupp -- Sites, places, and the empire : Lu You's travel on the Yangzi River in Southern Song China / Cong Ellen Zhang -- The text as map : Benedict the Pole's account of the Carpine mission to Mongolia (1246-1247) / Adriano Duque -- Desert traveling in al-Shanfara's "Lamiyyatu'l Arab" / Wisam Mansour. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0404641687 9780404641689 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009026904 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discoveries in geography--History--To 1500.<br/>Civilization, Medieval
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G82  / .T7 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.40902