Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

Pedro Tafur 4: Cyprus, Chios, and Constantinople

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Our 15th-century traveller dodges catastrophe on the Mediterranean and drops in on late-imperial Constantinople, where there's plenty of seafood and the roots of Pedro's family tree.

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Sources:

  • Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439), translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926.
  • Gregory, Timothy E. A History of Byzantium. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
  • Byron, Robert & Rice, David Talbot. The Birth of Western Painting. Routledge, 2013.

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