A Mission to the Medieval Middle East : The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere to Jerusalem and Constantinople
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1780764324
ISBN-13
9781780764320
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
I.B. Tauris
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 13th, 2019
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
684 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.10 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Middle Eastern historyMedieval history
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In the years 1432-3 Bertandon de la Brocquiere , fifteenth-century gentleman and confidante to the Duke of Burgundy, undertook a pilgrimage to the Middle East and beyond.
Bertrandon de la Broquiere was esquire to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Philip had plans for a new Crusade to the Holy Land and as part of this plan he persuaded Bertrandon to undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to gather intelligence. Bertrandon set off in 1432 disguised as a pilgrim but acting as a spy for Philip, noting important details of the military, political and cultural aspects of Mamluk and Ottoman lands. The resulting account of his travels, translated into English by Thomas Johnes in 1807, provides invaluable information on the region, including the military tactics of the Turks and the early use of gunpowder by the Mamluks. It is also one of the key documents for the history of the Crusades in the late medieval period.
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