Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Volume 22 in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610963

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About this book

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).

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA

Reviews

In diesem Band kommen tschechische Reiseberichte genauso zu Wort wie böhmische Unterhaltungsliteratur, in der die Protagonisten viel unterwegs sind. Hinzu kommen Untersuchungen, die sich auf solche geistigen Reisen beziehen, die ein Individuum stellvertretend etwa für Nonnen (stabilitas loci) oder Kaufleute durchführt, die wegen ihrer Tätigkeit unabkömmlich sind. Dazu finden sich hier Aufsätze, in denen solchen Fragen nachgegangen wird, welche Ernähung Reisende erhielten, ob der ostasiatische Raum überhaupt Europa wahrnahm und ob von dort buddhistisches Gedankengut dorthin gelangte.

literarurkritik.de, 08.08.2019

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	IX
Author Biography Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Time, Space, and Travel in the Pre-Modern World: Theoretical and Historical Reflections. An Introduction Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	1
A Vicarious Voyage in Queer Time: Hygeburg’s Hodoeporicon Lisa M. C. Weston Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	76
Texts that Travel: Translation Genres and Knowledge-Making in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement Maha Baddar Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	95
Against the Dangers of Travel: Journey Blessings and Amulets in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition Chiara Benati Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	120
Water Rituals and the Preservation of Identity in Ibn Fadlan’s Risala Sally Abed Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	165
Mapping the Road to Knowledge: The Mosaic Floor of Otranto Cathedral, Apulia, Italy (1163–1165) Nurit Golan Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	188
The Chronotope of Law in the Sachsenspiegel Illustrations: A Pictorial Travel Through the World of Law Na’ama Shulman Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	224
Anachronism and Anatopism in the French Vulgate Cycle and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens Doaa Omran Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	266
Traveling to/in the North During the Middle Ages: The World of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	285
The Buddha and the Medieval West: Changing Perspectives on Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages Romedio Schmitz-Esser Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	311
At Home and on the Road: Comparing Food Cultures in the Medieval Low Countries Peter Stabel and Inneke Baatsen Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	331
The Revealing Peregrinations of Margery Kempe Lia Ross Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	359
Spatial Configurations, Movement, and Identity in Chaucer’s Romances Anne Scott Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	379
“Make a Pilgrimage for Me”: The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage Gavin Fort Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	424
Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles: With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature Jiří Koten Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	446
Miracles, Marvels, and the Plague in the Czech-Written Travelogue by Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621) David Tomíček Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	464
Traveling Carpenters: The Russell Family of Westminster in the Early Sixteenth Century Charlotte A. Stanford Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	482
Travels with Johann Reuchlin: Linguist, Lawyer, and Christian Cabalist Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	515
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 J. Michael Fulton Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	542
Mobility, Space and the Pícara’s Identity in Alonso de Salas Barbadillo’s La hija de Celestina María Dolores Morillo Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	563
The Journey within the Journey: Catabasis and Travel Narrative in Late Medieval and Early Modern Epic Warren Tormey Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	585
Voyage to India with Sir William Jones: The Asiatick Society Remakes the West. The Travel of Texts and Their Transformative Power on Culture Aaron French Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	622
Space, Time, and Identity: Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Epidemic of Ennui in the Pre-Modern West Allison P. Coudert Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	647
Index Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	697

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 704
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 72
- Tables: 7

eBook

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110610963

Hardcover

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110595031