Journeying along medieval routes in Europe and the Middle East / edited by Alison L. Gascoigne, Leonie V. Hicks, and Marianne O'Doherty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gascoigne, Alison L., editor.

Hicks, Leonie V., editor.

O'Doherty, Marianne, editor.

Series:

Medieval voyaging ; v. 3.

Medieval voyaging ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel, Medieval.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Middle East--Description and travel.

Middle East.

Travel.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Summary:

Focusing on routes and journeys throughout medieval Europe and the Middle East in the period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth century, this multi-disciplinary book draws on travel narratives, chronicles, maps, charters, geographies, and material remains in order to shed new light on the experience of travelling in the Middle Ages. The contributions gathered here explore the experiences of travellers moving between Latin Europe and the Holy Land, between southern Italy and Sicily, and across Germany and England, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, they offer unique insights into the experience, conditions, conceptualization, and impact of human movement in medieval Europe. Many essays place a strong emphasis on the methodological problems associated with the study of travel and its traces, and the collection is enhanced by the juxtaposition of scholarly work taking different approaches to this challenge. The papers included here engage in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue and are supported by a discursive, contextualizing introduction by the editors. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Way through the Book; Routes around the Holy Land

Framing Sanctity: The Staging of Holy Places as Initiation for Christian Pilgrimage in Constantinian Jerusalem / Ralf Bockmann Bockmann, Ralf 25

Routes to Salvation: Travelling through the Holy Land, 1187-1291 / E.J. Mylod Mylod, E.J. 51

Part 2 Migrants, Colonizers, Travellers, and Geographers in the Landscapes of Southern Italy

Problems and Patterns in Medieval Migration: The Case of Southern Italy (1000-1200) / Paul Oldfield Oldfield, Paul 89

Journeys and Landscapes of Conquest: Normans Travelling to and in Southern Italy and Sicily / Leonie V. Hicks Hicks, Leonie V. 115

Routes in Southern Italy in the Geographical Works of al-Idrisi / Jean-Charles Ducène Ducène, Jean-Charles 143

Part 3 The Route and the Journey: Problems in the Reconstruction of Itineraries and Routes in North-West Europe

Routes around the Royal Pfalz of Dornburg on the River Saale, central Germany, in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries / Pierre Fütterer Fütterer, Pierre 169

Road Networks, Communications, and the Teutonic Order: A Case Study from Medieval Thuringia / Christian Oertel Oertel, Christian 205

The Itinerary of Edward I of England: Pleasure, Piety, and Governance / Julie E. Crockford Crockford, Julie E. 231

Making Space for King John to Pray: The Evidence of the Royal Itinerary / Paul Webster Webster, Paul 259.

Notes:

"This volume grew out of sessions at the 2010 International Medieval Congress sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton"--Acknowledgements, page xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503541730

2503541739

OCLC:

949991556

Publisher Number:

99968016449