Nouvelles recherches sur une traversée du Sinaï en 1486. Le pèlerinage en Orient de Georges Lengherand, mayeur de Mons
ID: | 115004 |
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Dokumententyp: | Beitrag in Sammelband |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Veröffentlicht: | Bruxelles
(2018)
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Schriftenreihe: | Acta Orientalia Belgica (AcOrBel), 31 |
Schlagwörter: | REISEBERICHT -> Allg. Begriffe zu Textgattung, Buch und Literatur SINAI -> Ortsnamen (Museumsorte etc.) FÜNFZEHNTES JHDT.N.CHR. -> Epochenbezeichnungen LENGHERAND, G. -> Personennamen (modern) |
Seiten: | 9- |
Onlinezugriff: | Zur Webseite |
Letzte Aktualisierung: | 26.05.2019 |
Eintrag-Nr(alt): | 117005 |
This paper concerns the travel of Georges Lengherand, Mayor of Mons in Hainault, across Sinai Peninsula during his pilgrimage to Holy Land in 1486. The traveller left a vivid account in which he relates his misadventures. Most interesting for us, we learn that Lengherand and his companions follow a lesser frequented caravan route from north to south along el-Tih Plateau. Some place names he mentions can be easily identified. Thanks to the scholarly comments of Damien Laisney, french cartographer and Dr Ahmed Shams and his Sinai Peninsula research (sPr) fieldwork, some missing place names mentioned in Lengherand’s account have been suggested.