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

728 Pages·2018·7.66 MB·English

by  Albrecht Classen (ed.)

Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Fundamentals of Medieval
and Early Modern Culture
Edited by
Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge
Volume 22
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
ISBN 978-3-11-059503-1
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-061096-3
e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-060970-7
ISSN 1864-3396
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946857
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Contents
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
VI   Contents
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
Contents   VII
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