Western Travellers to Constantinople - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Travellers to Constantinople write by K.N. Ciggaar. This book was released on 2022-04-19. Western Travellers to Constantinople available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume deals with relations between the West and Byzantium, from the accession of Otto I the Great in Germany in 962, until the Fourth Crusade when Constantinople was conquered by the Western crusading armies in 1204. The impact which these contacts and confrontations had on both sides is discussed in sections dealing with specific areas (such as the North, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) as well as in sections dealing with specific aspects of the process: the journey, the attractions of the East, and the idea of "autoritates" and "translationes" of various political and intellectual ideas. An extensive index will help readers to find specific topics. The book is illustrated with maps, and with a number of objects betraying Byzantine influence in the West, or Western presence in Byzantium.
Constantinople
Constantinople - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantinople write by Edmondo De Amicis. This book was released on 1878. Constantinople available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brûsa, and the Troad
Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brûsa, and the Troad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brûsa, and the Troad write by Sir Charles William Wilson. This book was released on 1893. Handbook for Travellers in Constantinople, Brûsa, and the Troad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Time of Gifts
A Time of Gifts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Time of Gifts write by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This book was released on 2011-09-14. A Time of Gifts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
Travel in the Byzantine World
Travel in the Byzantine World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Travel in the Byzantine World write by Ruth Macrides. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Travel in the Byzantine World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This latest volume in the SPBS series makes a notable contribution to our understanding both of the evidence for travel, and of the realities and perceptions of communications in the Byzantine world. Four aspects of travel in the Byzantine world, from the 6th to the 15th century, are examined: technicalities of travel on land and sea, purposes of travel, foreign visitors' perceptions of Constantinople, and the representation of the travel experience in images and in written accounts. Sources used to illuminate these aspects include descriptions of journeys, pilot books, bilingual word lists, shipwrecks, monastic documents, but as the opening paper shows the range of such sources can be far wider than generally supposed. The contributors highlight road and travel conditions for horses and humans, types of ships and speed of sea journeys, the nature of trade in the Mediterranean, the continuity of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attitudes toward travel. Patterns of communication in the Mediterranean are revealed through distribution of ceramic finds, letter collections, and the spread of the plague.
