The Road to Rome: Travel and travellers between England and Italy in the Anglo-Saxon centuries: Travel and travellers between England and Italy in the Anglo-Saxon centuries

This Book Started Its Life As A Study Of People Travelling Between England And Rome From The Augustinian Mission Until The Close Of The Anglo-saxon Period But That Proved To Be Too Limiting A Subject, For Two Reasons. One Was That So Much Of The Evidence About How People Travelled Around Lay In Continental Sources And It Seemed Foolish To Ignore It Simply As A Matter Of Principle. The Second Is That The Means By Which People Travelled Proved To Be So Exhaustive A Study That It Led Into All Kinds Of By-ways: Accommodation, Money Carrying And Changing, Safety, Language And A Whole Range Of Human Problems That Still Exist In Modern Travel But Are More Easily Solved For The Traveller, Usually By Other People. It Was Not Enough To Catalogue The Travellers: The Question Turned To, How Did They Manage To Do It Before The Days Of Organised Mass Travel In The High Middle Ages? The Later Centuries Have Been Better Studied, But The Earlier Ones Have Not.^ The Result Is Thus Something Of A Hybrid: More Than A Study Of English Sources Alone, But Less Than A Study Of The Whole Of European Travel. The Theme Is Primarily The North-south Routes That Converged On The Alps And Joined The North Of Europe To Italy. Where Appropriate, The Author Has Confined His Evidence To Material From England, That Is, To Those People Who Made The Journey And Their Motives, The Timing And Duration Of Their Journeys, And The Routes That They Followed. Elsewhere, In Sections Which Address The Mechanics Of Travel, He Has Widened The Range Of Sources, To Include Material From All Anglo-saxon Sources Irrespective Of Where The Journey Was Made, Provided That It Was Compatible With A Journey To Rome. The Author Has Also Adopted Some Contemporary Foreign Parallels Where Continental Experience Would Match English, Thus Including Material Ranging From Gregory Of Tours At The Beginning Of Our Period, And Albert Of Stade, Some Time After The End.^ In Including These Additional Sources The Author Has Tried To Throw Light On The Problems Of Travellers To And From England Rather Than Provide What Would Be An Inadequate Description Of The Whole Of Continental Travel.--publisher's Website. Introduction -- The Sources -- The Timing, Planning And Duration Of The Journey -- Who Went And Why -- The Mechanics Of Travel -- The Routes To Italy -- A Review Of The Evidence About The Routes And Individual Travellers C. 600-c. 1066 -- Summary -- Illustrations -- Appendix 1. Travellers Whose Route Is Known Or Can Be Guessed, In Chronological Order -- Appendix 2. List Of Travellers Between England And Italy, Who Are Known To Have Gone, Their Motives And Sources -- Appendix 3. The Timing Of The Journesy -- Appendix 4. The Status Of Known Travellers -- Appendix 5. Miscellaneious References -- Documentary Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index Of Travellers -- Index Of Places. Stephen Matthews. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 127-129) And Indexes. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 THE SOURCES CHAPTER 3 THE TIMING, PLANNING AND DURATION OF JOURNEYS CHAPTER 4 WHO WENT AND WHY CHAPTER 5 THE MECHANICS OF TRAVEL CHAPTER 6 THE ROUTES TO ITALY CHAPTER 7 A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE ABOUT THE ROUTES AND INDIVIDUAL TRAVELLERS CHAPTER 8 SUMMARY ILLUSTRATIONS APPENDIX 1 THE TRAVELLERS WHOSE ROUTE IS KNOWN OR CAN BE GUESSED, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER APPENDIX 2 LIST OF TRAVELLERS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND ITALY, WHO ARE KNOWN TO HAVE GONE, THEIR MOTIVES AND THE SOURCES APPENDIX 3 THE TIMING OF JOURNEYS APPENDIX 4 THE STATUS OF KNOWN TRAVELLERS APPENDIX 5 MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES, UNDATED OR GENERAL DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF TRAVELLERS INDEX OF PLACES The idea of organised mass travel is one that does not really come about until the High Middle Ages, and this study looks at the mechanics of travel before then. It asks questions such as who travelled and why and examines the principle routes between England and Rome and the problems experienced by travellers over land during this period. The appendices contain lists of the known travellers to Rome and their routes, and a documentary appendix of sources which describe such travel.