Coryats Crudities: Selections

By Thomas Coryate

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554813239
• ISBN13: 9781554813230
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"