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Bauer, Martin, Booth, Philip and Fischer, Susanna (Eds.): To Jerusalem and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 19). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998

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07/20/2023

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Martin Bauer (Ed.), Philip Booth (Ed.), Susanna Fischer (Ed.)

To Jerusalem and Beyond

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte

With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this volume outlines and explores current and future research trajectories with a focus on Latin travel literature from c. 1200–1500. Combining digital, codicological, literary, philological, and anthropological approaches the volume analyses the ways in which these texts were produced, distributed, received, read, and how they can be interpreted. It argues for the importance of re-evaluating these texts and revisiting their contents in light of new methodological and theoretical approaches.

Martin Bauer is postdoctoral researcher in Greek and Latin philology at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests include epic and lyric poetry, historiography and epistolography from antiquity to the early modern period.

Philip Booth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research deals with the history of pilgrimage and medieval travel, with a focus on the Holy Land.

Susanna Fischer is privatdocent at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Latin philology and research fellow in the DFG Project “Burchard de Monte Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae. Edition und historische Rezeptionskontexte” at University of Kassel. Her research interests include Latin travel literature from antiquity to the early modern period, as well as roman tragedy and philosophy, and medieval poetry on Troy.

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Title
Dedication
Contents
VII-VIII
Martin Bauer, Philip Booth, Susanna Fischer
Introduction
1-11
Part I: Texts, Maps, and Manuscripts
Jonathan Rubin
Authorial and Scribal Interventions in Medieval Accounts of the Holy Land
Burchard of Mount Sion’s ‘Descriptio Terre Sancte’ as a Test Case
15-33
Eva Ferro, Michael Schonhardt
The Manuscript Circulation of Burchard’s ‘Descriptio Terre Sancte’ and Its Contexts
35-66
Susanna Fischer
The Transmission of a ‘Declaracio mappe Terre Sancte’ from the 15th Century
Towards a Digital Edition of a Textual Description of a Grid Map
67-90
Part II: Authors, Audiences, and Concepts
Jana Valtrová
Struggling with Fear?
Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts about the Mongols
93-116
Stefan Schröder
The ‘Muslim Other’ in (Late) Medieval Latin Pilgrimage Reports
Origins, Differences, and Functions
117-160
Philip Booth
Beyond Turner
Anthropological Approaches and Medieval Pilgrimage Texts
161-188
Martin Bauer
Imagined Travels and Neoplatonic Pilgrimage in Petrarch’s ‘Itinerarium ad sepulcrum Domini nostri Yehsu Cristi’
189-208
Yamit Rachman-Schrire
Reading Allegory into the Landscape of the Holy Land
Sermons Integrated into Felix Fabri’s ‘Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae Arabiae, et Egypti peregrinationem’
209-222
Kathryne Beebe
Jacob Klingner, Felix Fabri, and the Interpretation of Imagined Pilgrimage
223-244
Index of Places
245-248
Index of Persons
249-252

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