Riccoldo da Monte di Croce in an East European Context: Some Remarks on the Reception of Riccoldo’s Works in Russian and Polish Literature and Its Historical Context

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.