Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger : A Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 (Paperback)

Preface; Bibliography; Introduction; 1. Of the first combat between King Sigmund and the Turks; 2. How the Turkish king treated the prisoners; 3. How Wyasit subjugated an entire country; 4. How Wyasit made war on his brother-on-law, and killed him; 5. How Weyasit drives away the king of Sebast; 6. What sixty of us Christians had agreed upon; 7. How Wyasit took the city of Samson; 8. Of serpents and vipers; 9. How the infidels remain in the fields with their cattle, in winter and summer; 10. How Weyasit took a country that belonged to the Sultan; 11. Of the King-Sultan; 12. How Temerlin conquered the kingdom of Sebast; 13. Weyasit conquers Lesser Armenia; 14. How Tamerlin goes to war with the King-Sultan; 15. How Tamerlin conquered Babiloni; 16. How Tamerlin conquered Lesser India; 17. How a vassal carried off riches that belonged to Tamerlin; 18. How Tamerlin caused MMM children to be killed; 19. Tamerlin wants to go to war with the Great Chan; 20. Of Tamerlin's death; 21. Of the sons of Tamerlin; 22. How Joseph caused Mirenschach to be beheaded; 23. How Joseph vanquished a king and beheaded him; 24. How Schiltberger came to Aububachir; 25. Of a king's son; 26. How one lord succeeds another lord; 27. Of an infidel woman, who had four thousand maidens; 28. In what countries I have been; 29. In which countries I have been that lay between the Tonow and the sea; 30. Of the castle of the sparrow-hawk, and how it is guarded; 31. How a poor fellow watched the sparrow-hawk; 32. More about the castle of the sparrow-hawk; 33. In which countries silk is grown; 34. Of the tower of Babilony that is of such great height; 35. Of great Tartaria; 36. The countries in which I have been, that belong to Tartary; 37. How many kings-sultan there were, whilst I was amongst the infidels; 38. Of the mountain of St. Catherine; 39. Of the withered tree; 40. Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre; 41. Of the spring in Paradise, with IIII rivers; 42. How pepper grows in India; 43. Of Allexandria; 44. Of a great giant; 45. Of the many religions the infidels have; 46. How Machmet and his religion spread; 47. Of the infidels' Easter-day; 48. Of the other Easter-day; 49. Of the law of the infidels; 50. Why Machmet has forbidden wine to infidels; 51. Of a fellowship the infidels have among themselves; 52. How a Christian becomes an infidel; 53. What the infidels believe of Christ; 54. What the infidels say of Christians; 55. How Christians are said not to hold to their religion; 56. How long ago it is, since Machmet lived; 57. Of Constantinoppel; 58. Of the Greeks; 59. Of the Greek religion; 60. How the city of Constantinoppel was built; 61. How the Jassen have their marriage; 62. Of Armenia; 63. Of the religion of the Armenians; 64. Of a Saint Gregory; 65. Of a dragon and a unicorn; 66. Why the Greeks and Armani are enemies; 67. Through which countries I have come away; The Armenian Pater Noster; The Tartar Pater Noster; Notes; Titles of works not fully cited in the foregoing notes; Index.