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‘Take a plunge into medieval history and travel, forget your modern day worries and prepare to be surprised. You will be entering a world that is not only pre-Columbus, pre-Reconquista, pre-Renaissance, but also slightly predates the Gutenberg Bible and the War of the Roses. Your stereotypical ideas about the Middle Ages as a dark, gloomy period will be blown to bits. You’ll see that people traveled, observed, depicted, compared and constructed their worldview much the same way we do in the age of low-cost flights and Instagram, just a bit differently. Keep an open mind and you’ll be richly rewarded!’ * Alexis Charbonnier, Professor of English, Université Clermont Auvergne, France * The Observations of Gilles le Bouvier, impeccably edited and translated into clear, conversational English, is an exciting addition to medieval travel literature. Written by Gilles le Bouvier, best known as the author of Les Chroniques du Roi Charles VII par Gilles le Bouvier Dit le Hérault Berri, this work offers geographical details of many of the kingdom of Europe, not to mention many lands in the Near East, the region of the Caucasus region, and other lands bordering on the Black Sea. * Tracy Adams, Professor in European Languages and Literature, University of Auckland, New Zealand *

‘Take a plunge into medieval history and travel, forget your modern day worries and prepare to be surprised. You will be entering a world that is not only pre-Columbus, pre-Reconquista, pre-Renaissance, but also slightly predates the Gutenberg Bible and the War of the Roses. Your stereotypical ideas about the Middle Ages as a dark, gloomy period will be blown to bits. You’ll see that people traveled, observed, depicted, compared and constructed their worldview much the same way we do in the age of low-cost flights and Instagram, just a bit differently. Keep an open mind and you’ll be richly rewarded!’ - Alexis Charbonnier, Professor of English, Université Clermont Auvergne, France The Observations of Gilles le Bouvier, impeccably edited and translated into clear, conversational English, is an exciting addition to medieval travel literature. Written by Gilles le Bouvier, best known as the author of Les Chroniques du Roi Charles VII par Gilles le Bouvier Dit le Hérault Berri, this work offers geographical details of many of the kingdom of Europe, not to mention many lands in the Near East, the region of the Caucasus region, and other lands bordering on the Black Sea. - Tracy Adams, Professor in European Languages and Literature, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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Gideon Brough holds a PhD in Medieval Diplomatic Relations and Warfare from Cardiff University, UK. He currently teaches Welsh, British and European History at The Open University, UK. His main academic interests are Welsh and French History, focusing on aspects of warfare, diplomacy, power relations, geopolitics, insurgencies and notions of identity. Sophie Patrick is Lecturer in French at University of New England, Australia. Her research interests include medieval French literature and translation, as well as dystopian and declinist literature.

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