Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 2: Sacred Objects in the Imperial City

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In their journey to see Timur, Clavijo and the other envoys stop in at Constantinople where we visit artifacts and sacred objects.

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Sources:

  • Narrative of the embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the court of Timour at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6, translated by Clements R. Markham. Hakluyt Society, 1859.
  • Embassy to Tamerlane: 1403-1406, translated by Guy le Strange. Routledge, 2005.
  • Lee, A.D. From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
  • Majesca, George P. Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Dumbarton Oaks, 1984.
  • Manz, Beatrice Forbes. The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Necipoğlu, Nevra. Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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  • Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. Penguin, 2003. 
  • Stephenson, Paul. The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Zarinebaf, Fariba. Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata. University of California Press, 2018.

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