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Coryat's crudities
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- Book Synopsis
- The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England. This edition abridges the Crudities' more than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most likely to be of interest to students-such as Coryate's descriptions of Venetian mountebanks, courtesans, and Jews; his crossing of the Alps; and his attendance at a Corpus Christi celebration in Paris. The selection of contextual materials includes illustrations from the first edition, along with a sampling from another eccentric feature of the Crudities: a collection of mock commendatory poems making fun of Coryate and his journey.
- About The Author
- Philip S. Palmer is Head of Research Services at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781554813230
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Broadview Press, (30 September 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 259
- Weight
- 302 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 142 x 217 x 13 mm
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