The Monk Bernard's Journey To Jerusalem

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The Mediterranean in the Medieval period has been vastly ignored in textbooks. However, this lack allows for there to be a creation of a new textbook to address the importance and noteworthy contributions of the Medieval Mediterranean. One primary source that would prove to be insightful in a textbook on the subject is “The Monk Bernard’s Journey to Jerusalem” in this the Monk Bernard tells about his ‘pilgrimage’ to holy sites in the Middle East. This text while also being one of the first of its kind also gave travelers an idea of what to expect if they did decide to journey on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or the surrounding lands (Dutton, Introduction). Bernard in his details about his travels with fellow monks would make a great addition to