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Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587
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Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the 'advice to princes' tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin literature composed in Scotland in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries.
 
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Tags: Scotland, literature, Premodern, 1420-1587, Governance
Premodern Travel in World History
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Premodern Travel in World HistoryFrom Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and through to the first speculations on space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an overview of long-distance travel in Afro-Eurasia from around 400 BCE to 1500.

Edited by: Fruchtzwerg - 22 December 2008
Reason: cover image thumbnailed + typo corrected

 
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Tags: history, travel, silk road, marco polo, History, World, Travel, Premodern, Travel