Richard of Lincoln : a medieval doctor travels to Jerusalem / edited and translated by Francis Davey.

Davey, Francis.

Date:: 2013

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Richard of Lincoln : a medieval doctor travels to Jerusalem / edited and translated by Francis Davey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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After reading Classics at New College, Oxford, Francis Davey taught for a number of years before becoming Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, London. In 2010 the Bodleian Library published his book on The Itineraries of William Wey, another medieval pilgrim, whose account in Latin describes his travels to Santiago de Compostela, Rome and Jerusalem m the mid-fifteenth century. This book recounts the pilgrimage of Richard of Lincoln, a doctor and astrologer, writing in Middle English, who set off from England for Jerusalem in 1454. Francis Davey and his wife have travelled extensively in the steps of both these pilgrims who probably never met, but whose routes would have crossed at Ostiglia on the River Po in northern Italy.