Travels to the Otherworld and Other Fantastic Realms - Claude Lecouteux
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A collection of tales from the Middle Ages that reveal voyages to Heaven and Hell, the realm of the Faery, mystical lands, and encounters with mythic beasts
- Shares travelers' accounts of voyages into the afterlife, alarming creatures of unparalleled strangeness, encounters with doppelgangers and angels, chivalric romantic misadventures, and legends of heroes
- Explains how travelers' tales from the Middle Ages drew on geographies, encyclopedias, travel accounts, bestiaries, and herbals for material to capture the imagination of their audiences
- Includes rare illustrations from incunabula and medieval manuscripts
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
ISBN-10: 9781620559420