Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation

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Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists' employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis). Contents List of Illustrations Author Biography Time, Space, and Travel in the Pre-Modern World: Theoretical and Historical Reflections. An Introduction A Vicarious Voyage in Queer Time: Hygeburg’s Hodoeporicon Texts that Travel: Translation Genres and Knowledge-Making in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement Against the Dangers of Travel: Journey Blessings and Amulets in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition Water Rituals and the Preservation of Identity in Ibn Fadlan’s Risala Mapping the Road to Knowledge: The Mosaic Floor of Otranto Cathedral, Apulia, Italy (1163–1165) The Chronotope of Law in the Sachsenspiegel Illustrations: A Pictorial Travel Through the World of Law Anachronism and Anatopism in the French Vulgate Cycle and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens Traveling to/in the North During the Middle Ages: The World of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives The Buddha and the Medieval West: Changing Perspectives on Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages At Home and on the Road: Comparing Food Cultures in the Medieval Low Countries The Revealing Peregrinations of Margery Kempe Spatial Configurations, Movement, and Identity in Chaucer’s Romances “Make a Pilgrimage for Me”: The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles: With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature Miracles, Marvels, and the Plague in the Czech-Written Travelogue by Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621) Traveling Carpenters: The Russell Family of Westminster in the Early Sixteenth Century Travels with Johann Reuchlin: Linguist, Lawyer, and Christian Cabalist 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 Mobility, Space and the Pícara’s Identity in Alonso de Salas Barbadillo’s La hija de Celestina The Journey within the Journey: Catabasis and Travel Narrative in Late Medieval and Early Modern Epic Voyage to India with Sir William Jones: The Asiatick Society Remakes the West. The Travel of Texts and Their Transformative Power on Culture Space, Time, and Identity: Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Epidemic of Ennui in the Pre-Modern West Index