229
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 3-4, 16, 86, 127-28,130, 211, 213
St. Albans Abbey, 3, 4, 9, 50, 83, 128-29, 164, 220
Saladin, 144
Sawma (Xestorian monk), 108-9, 198
Seigneur d'Anglure, 67
Selim II, Sultan of Constantinople, 179
Shakespeare, William, 5, 220
Sinai peninsula, 170-74, 191; St. Catherine's monastery, 6, 47, 170-81, 186-95, 20S' 211
Spenser, Edmund, 220
Stephen of Novgorod, 29
Suchem, Ludolph von, 58, 105
Sumatra, 7, 50, 197, 208
Swift, Jonathan, 220
Syria, 9; Damascus, 90-97, 102-4, ^^^' Hassake, 105, 112-15; Maalula, 120-22; Palmyra, 106-7; Saidenaya, 118-20, 211
Thomas de Burton, 129
Tibet, 50, 207-8
Tischendorf, Constantine, 179-81
Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The, 4, 5, 6-j, 9, 44-45, 52, 77, 82, 97,103,126,127,138, 165, 203, 205-8, 211-13, 215, 218
Umayyad dynasty, 95 Umayyad Mosque, 97, 102-4
X'lncent of Beauvais, 45, 159, 199,
Walsingham, Thomas, 130
Warner, WiUiam, 11
W^eever, John, 128
W^illiam of Boldensele, 29, 45, 66,
159 W^illiam of Tripoli, 45, 6j, 158 Wilham the Conqueror, 87 wine, 6, 67, 125
Tamberlaine, 198 Yeh-lu Ta-shih, 204
Tengiz (governor of Damascus),
95 Zoe, Empress, 26-27
230
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GILES MILTON is the acclaimed author ot yathanieVs Nutmeg, or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History (FSG, 1999) and, most recently, Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (FSG, 2000). He lives in London.
Jacket design by Archie Ferp^uson
Jacket art: Pili^ms approaching the ciry gates. Sir John Mandeille's
Travels, early fifteenth century. British Library, London, U.K./
Bridgcman Art Library