The art, science, and technology of medieval travel / Art, science, and technology of mediaeval travel edited by Robert Bork and Andrea Kann. - xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm. - AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art ; v. 6 . - AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art ; v. 6. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Carolingian military operations : an introduction to technological perspectives / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Everything is a compromise : Mediterranean ship design, thirteenth to sixteenth centuries / John E. Dotson -- From carriage to coach : what happened? / Julian Munby -- Caister Castle, Norfolk, and the transport of brick and other building materials in the Middle Ages / David H. Kennett -- Pilgrims and portals in late medieval Siena / Michelle Duran-McLure -- The strange lands of Ambrogio Lorenzetti / Anne McClanan -- Spiritual pilgrimage in the Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg / Annette Lermack -- Mapping the macrocosm : Christian platonist thought behind medieval maps and plans / Nigel Hiscock -- Informal catechesis and the Hereford Mappa mundi / Dan Terkla -- The gough map : Britain's oldest road map, or a statement of empire? / Nick Millea -- Petrarch's journey between two maps / Evelyn Edson -- Medieval tools of navigation : an overview / Richard A. Paselk -- Astrolabes and medieval travel / Sara Schechner.

0754663078 9780754663072

2008006356


Travel, Medieval

G369 / .A78 2008

914.0414