Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation (Fundamentals ... of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 22)

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). 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 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 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 The contributions to this volume explore the intellectual approaches to time and space through literary and historical reflections upon the self and its space from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age. No longer simply defined by travelogues, travel itself is here recognized as a major movement through space that allows for a reflection on the self and the outer world.