Henry Maundrell
Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at
Life
Maundrell was born at
He left
Maundrell was an observant reporter with a passion for precise detail:
It is concise in contents, plain and attractive in style, and precise in its natural exposition of facts, all of which make it interesting to read even to-day. When the diary, crammed with precise, factual information, began to circulate among his friends they quickly realised that here at last was one of the first factual accounts of the antiquities of the Middle East. Its impact was such that he was persuaded by his uncle and several of his acquaintances, to prepare it for publication.
- —Mohamad Ali Hachicho in 1964[10]
By the time it appeared, Maundrell, never in robust health, had died in Aleppo in 1701.
A further travel journal was published as A Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia (Oxford, 1699). It was appended to the Journey to Jerusalem in the 1714 edition.[11]
Notes
- ^ Text of 1810 reprint of Maundrell's book
- ^ Maundrell, Henry (1705). Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697. Par Henri Maundrell...Traduit de l'anglois (in French). chez Guillaume van Poolsum, marchand libraire.
- ^ Howell, Daniel. "The Journey of Henry Maundrell." Saudi Aramco World, July/August 1964, pp 14–23.
- ^ The Journey to Jerusalem "was republished in 1707, four years later. The third edition, published in 1714 included an added account, An Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. ...The book appeared in several collections of travel writings, starting in 1750." (Brickman, "Christian Pilgrims in the Holy Land: Taxation of the Ottoman Empire: Henry Maundrell— A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697").
- ^ Bibliographical details in Hachicho 1964:43, notes.
- ^ Mohamad Ali Hachicho, "English Travel Books about the Arab near East in the Eighteenth Century." Dictionary of National Biography Die Welt des Islams, New Series, 9.1/4 (1964:1–206) pp 42–44.
- ^ "Maundrell, Henry (1691–1693) (CCEd Person ID 1530)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ quoted by Gwilym Ambrose, "English traders at Aleppo, 1658–1756", Economic History Review 3.2 (October 1931:246–67) p. 265.
- ^ "In view of Maundrell's situation at the time of the pilgrimage it would have been extraordinary had certain unfavorable reactions not been reflected in his writing ... He was a Protestant in a land openly hostile to and contemptuous of Christians, and in which the outlook of other Christians was completely different from his own. These circumstances are reflected in an irritation toward the language and customs of those countries he visited." (Howell, Daniel. "The Journey of Henry Maundrell." Saudi Aramco World, July/August 1964.)
- ^ Howell 1964.
- ^ Hachicho 1964:43.
References
- Mohamad Ali Hachicho, "English Travel Books about the Arab near East in the Eighteenth Century." Dictionary of National Biography Die Welt des Islams, New Series, 9.1/4 (1964:1–206) pp 42–44.
- Howell, Daniel. "The Journey of Henry Maundrell." Saudi Aramco World, July/August 1964, pp 14–23.
- On-line text, from an 1823 edition.