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  • Chapter 19 - Santiago de Compostela

  • from France, Italy, and Iberia
  • Edited by Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
    Published online:
    03 October 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 337-355

  • Summary

    One of the earliest descriptions of Bohemia comes from the tenth-century Hispano-Arab Jewish traveller Ibrahim Ibn Yaqub. Cosmas’s Bohemian Chronicle serves as a basis for John Marignolli’s Cronica Boemorum, which laces its contents with reflections of his oriental voyages. The Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum of Martinus Polonus was translated into Greek, Persian, and Armenian. The Czech Alexandreida offers a modified account of Alexander the Great’s exploits, while the Liber Wenceslai militis contains a late-medieval knight’s account of a visit to England. On the level of new textual production, however, travel writing that might be characterized as literary or historiographical, or which extensively reports the wonders of the East, proceeds little beyond the turn of the fourteenth century in the Czech lands.