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.
| ISBN: | 9781554813230 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2017 |
| Author: | Thomas Coryate |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Genres: |
History and Archaeology European history Literary studies: general Classic travel writing |