Newton Arthur P. (ed.) Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages

Routledge, 2014. — 244 p.First published in 1926."The substance of the contributions here collected was comprised in a course of Public Lectures in the Depart- ments of History and Geography in King’s College, London, delivered in the Lent Term of 1925. Several of the contributions have been re-written and amplified with material that could not be included in the lectures, and I have added an entirely fresh chapter, but the book does not profess to be a complete survey of the fascinating field of which it treats. Those who are moved to explore further by the glimpses that alone are here revealed must betake themselves to the authorities that are mentioned in our footnotes and especially to the scholarly pages of Professor C. R. Beazley, Sir Henry Yule, M. Henri Cordier, and M. Ch. Schéfer. There they will find the full apparatus of maps and documents wherewith alone can justice be done to the ideas and achievements of medieval geographers. This brief conspectus of certain aspects of the subject may, how- ever, be of interest to the general reader, summarizing as it does some of the more recent work done in the field, and it will be of value to the increasing number of students in English and American universities who, as a part of their geographical courses, are concerning themselves with the history of travel.My warm thanks are due to the collaborators who have accepted so kindly my suggestions of subjects for treat- ment, and have facilitated my task in every way. For the planning and arrangement of the book I alone must accept responsibility." — A.P. NewtonArthur Percival Newton (1873–1942) was a historian of the British Empire who was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1920 to 1938. He was a general editor of The Cambridge History of the British Empire.