06/10/2025
Stark!
NEW!
Published October 2025, The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing, edited by Sebastian Sobecki, is a groundbreaking scholarly achievement that shatters the Eurocentric lens on medieval travel.
From Iceland to Indonesia, it uncovers the extraordinary journeys that laid the foundations for centuries of voyaging, exchange, and colonial expansion: Papal envoys enduring year-long treks to the Mongol court, Ibn Battuta’s thirty-year odyssey from Africa to East Asia, and the first European incursions into the Americas.
This is the first volume to approach medieval travel writing as a truly global phenomenon, paying meticulous attention to race, gender, manuscript culture, and language across Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and European sources.
Details:
https://substack.com//note/p-175311106