“Adoravimus Christum natum ad modum magorum”: Performance and Theatricality as Narrative Strategies in Riccoldo’s Liber peregrinationis

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, a Dominican friar, embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1288 and spent years as a missionary in Muslim Baghdad, learning Arabic and studying the Qur’an. After returning to Florence, he wrote extensively about non-Christian peoples.