The Medieval Invention of Travel
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Travail and Travel Writing
Part One: Subjectivity, Authority, and the “Exotic”
1. Exoticism as the Appropriation of Travail
2. Travail and Authority in the Forgotten Age of Discovery
Part Two: Pilgrimage as Literate Labor
3. Memory Work and the Labor of Writing
4. The Pilgrim as Investigator
Part Three: Discovering the Proximate
5. Becoming Petrarch
6. The Chivalric Mediterranean of Pero Tafur
Coda: Beyond 15; or, Travel’s Labors Lost
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association: SAMLA Studies Book Award - Monograph
Won
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages
Travel and Tourism: Tourism and History
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