The medieval invention of travel / Shayne Aaron Legassie.
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult,...
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Chicago :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Travail and travel writing
- Subjectivity, authority, and the "exotic". Exoticism as the appropriation of travail
- Travail and authority in the forgotten age of discovery
- Pilgrimage as literate labor. Memory work and the labor of writing
- The pilgrim as investigator
- Discovering the proximate. Becoming Petrarch
- The chivalric Mediterranean of Pero Tafur
- Coda: beyond 1500; or, Travel's labors lost.