The contributions to this volume explore the intellectual approaches to time and space through literary and historical reflections upon the self and its space from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age. No longer simply defined by travelogues, travel itself is here recognized as a major movement through space that allows for a reflection on the self and the outer world.
Author(s): Albrecht Classen (ed.)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 22
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 724
City: Berlin
List of Illustrations ix
Author Biography xiii
Albrecht Classen / Time, Space, and Travel in the Pre-Modern World: Theoretical and Historical Reflections. An Introduction 1
Lisa M. C. Weston / A Vicarious Voyage in Queer Time: Hygeburg's 'Hodoeporicon' 76
Maha Baddar / Texts that Travel: Translation Genres and Knowledge-Making in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement 95
Chiara Benati / Against the Dangers of Travel: Journey Blessings and Amulets in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition 120
Sally Abed / Water Rituals and the Preservation of Identity in Ibn Fadlan's 'Risala' 165
Nurit Golan / Mapping the Road to Knowledge: The Mosaic Floor of Otranto Cathedral, Apulia, Italy (1163–1165) 188
Na'ama Shulman / The Chronotope of Law in the 'Sachsenspiegel' Illustrations: A Pictorial Travel Through the World of Law 224
Doaa Omran / Anachronism and Anatopism in the French 'Vulgate Cycle' and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens 266
Albrecht Classen / Traveling to/in the North During the Middle Ages: The World of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives 285
Romedio Schmitz-Esser / The Buddha and the Medieval West: Changing Perspectives on Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages 311
Peter Stabel and Inneke Baatsen / At Home and on the Road: Comparing Food Cultures in the Medieval Low Countries 331
Lia Ross / The Revealing Peregrinations of Margery Kempe 359
Anne Scott / Spatial Configurations, Movement, and Identity in Chaucer's Romances 379
Gavin Fort / 'Make a Pilgrimage for Me': The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage 424
Jiří Koten / Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles: With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature 446
David Tomíček / Miracles, Marvels, and the Plague in the Czech-Written Travelogue by Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621) 464
Charlotte A. Stanford / Traveling Carpenters: The Russell Family of Westminster in the Early Sixteenth Century 482
Thomas Willard / Travels with Johann Reuchlin: Linguist, Lawyer, and Christian Cabalist 515
J. Michael Fulton / Personality Type and Prison Survival in Early Modern Spain. The Spiritual Move from Inside to the Outside: The Inquisitorial Trials of Fray Luis de León, Gaspar de Grajal, Martín Martínez Cantalapiedra, and Alonso Gudiel 542
María Dolores Morillo / Mobility, Space and the Pícara's Identity in Alonso de Salas Barbadillo's 'La hija de Celestina' 563
Warren Tormey / The Journey within the Journey: 'Catabasis' and Travel Narrative in Late Medieval and Early Modern Epic 585
Aaron French / Voyage to India with Sir William Jones: The Asiatick Society Remakes the West. The Travel of Texts and Their Transformative Power on Culture 622
Allison P. Coudert / Space, Time, and Identity: Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Epidemic of 'Ennui' in the Pre-Modern West 647
Index 697
