Marvels, Monsters, and Mysteries

This document contains all 6 essays from Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology by Anthony Bale & Sebastian Sobecki

This document contains a full summary of the entire Marvels, Monsters, and Mysteries course, focussing on medieval English travel writing. It contains a summary of: From Medieval English Travel by Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki: Introduction, essays 1-6 and texts 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 29, 30. From academic articles: The Romance of England: Richard Cour de Lyon, Saracens, Jew and the Politics of Race and Nation by Geraldine Heng, Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer an...

This document contains a summary of Text 17: The Stacions of Rome, Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of Medieval Rome – Jennifer Summit, as welll as seminar notes on the Stacions of Rome. It also contains Your Stacions of Rome Holiday All Planned Out ft. Google Maps.

This summary contains a summary of the Squire's tale, as well as a summary of an academic article on that topic and lecture & seminar notes.

This document contains a summary of the Middle English version of Floris and Blancheflor. It also contains lecture and seminar notes, discussing, amongst other things, the Christian aspects, the Otherness, humour, trade, the supernatural, gender and agency.

This document contains a summary of the Prologue and extracts from The Travels of Mandeville, text 10 and 11 in Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology. It also contains lecture&seminar notes on these texts.