Travels and mobilities in the Middle Ages : from the Atlantic to the Black Sea / edited by Marianne O'Doherty and Felicitas Schmieder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Doherty, Marianne, editor.

Schmieder, Felicitas, editor.

Series:

International medieval research (Series) ; Volume 21.

International medieval research ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel, Medieval.

Travel--History--To 1500.

Travel.

Travel--History--16th century.

Emigration and immigration--History--To 1500.

Emigration and immigration.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2015]

Summary:

This collection of research, which brings together contributions from scholars around the world, reflects the range and variety of work that is currently being undertaken in the field of travel and mobility in the European Middle Ages. The essays draw on diverse methodological approaches, from the archival and literary to the art historical and archaeological. The collection focuses not just on key medieval modes of travel and mobility, but also on themes whose relevance continues to resonate in the modern world. Topics touched upon include religious and diplomatic journeys, migration, mobility and governance, gendered mobilities, material culture and mobility, mobility and disability, travel and status, and notions of home and abroad. Broad themes are approached through case studies of individuals, families, and groups, ranging from kings, queens, and nobles to friars, exiles, and students. The geographical reach of the collection is particularly broad, encompassing travellers from Southern, Western, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe and journeys to destinations as diverse as Scandinavia, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. A wide-ranging and detailed introduction situates the collection in its scholarly context.

Contents:

Part I. Centres and Peripheries: Travellers to and on the Margins. 'Them Friars Dash About': Mendicant Terminario in Medieval Scandinavia / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen

Papal Delegations to the Edge of the World: Visits from the Papal Curia to Norway Between 1050 and 1536 / Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide

From the Edge of Europe to Global Empire: Portuguese Medicine Abroad (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) / Iona McCleery

Have Crutch, Will Travel: Disabled People on the Move in Medieval Europe / Irina Metzler

Part II. Nobility of the Road: Travel and Status. Why Didn't King Stephen Crusade? / John D. Hosler

The Travels of Ivan Babonić: The Mobility of Slavonian Noblemen in the Fourteenth Century / Hrvoje Kekez

The Perfect Gentle Knight: Fourteenth-Century Crusaders in Prussia / Mary Fischer

Part III. Men and Women on the Move: Gendered Mobilities. Dangerous Travellers: Identity, Profession, and Gender Among the German Landsknechts (1450-1570) / Stefanie Rüther

On the Road Again: The Semi-Nomadic Career of Yolande of Aragon (1400-1439) / Zita Rohr

Student Mobilities and Masculinities: The Case of the Empire North of the Alps in the Fifteenth Century / Maximilian Schuh

Part IV. Migration and Return: Peoples and Objects on the Move. Slavs but not Slaves: Slavic Migrations to Southern Italy in the Early and High Middle Ages / Zrinka Nikolić Jakus

Ex partibus orientalibus translata ad hanc urbem: The Evacuation of Elements of Church Decoration from Pera to Genoa in 1461 / Rafał Quirini-Popławski

A Herald and his Objects in Exile: Roger Machado and his Memorandum Book, 1484-1485 / Gemma L. Watson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9782503555058

2503555055