Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to

Interesting topics Include: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; Chinese porcelain; The crusades; The hajj; Medieval monsters; The Norse sagas; The search for spices

This sixth volume in the AVISTA series considers medieval travel from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, placing the physical practice of transportati

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations betwe