Author: MITCHELL, R. J
Title: The Spring Voyage : The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458
Description: London, Reader's Union/ John Murray. 1965, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book, In the Spring of 1458 two hundred travellers embarked on two Venetian galleys for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It included twenty-nine Englishmen.seventeen Italians, an Austrian and a Dutchman. This detailed account of their adventures is based the diaries of six of those pilgrims, As well as accounts all the religious sites like Jerusalem and the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai it includes descriptions of Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus. 213p.+plates map bibliography. index. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Medieval Christian Pilgrims Travel Middle East Crete Rhodes Cyprus Holy Land Jerusalem Mount Sinai Cyprus Rhodes


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