... hybridity in the literature of this period, unveiling a way for a creature to be simultaneously hybrid and natural. Mandeville's Travels Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World monsters hybrid creatures animal and human relationships Several prominent scholars in early modern literary studies...

... to make the adventures in South America signify within a Protestant political allegory. The allegorical nature of colonial writing has been dis- cussed by Thomas Scanlan: 124 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 If allegory involves the construction of a narrative...

... or superstitious, but words like trinket and trifle emerged as specifically Protestant markers of Catholic superstition in early modern England. Anecdotes describing non-Europeans overvaluing “trinkets” and “trifles” are scattered throughout early modern travel narratives. Pietz argues that the “key...

... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern travel narrative Mughal India English trade demography chorography When Fitch does reach the Bengal frontier by land, crossing a largely intractable wilderness, with “many buffes, swine and deere, grasse longer then a man, and very...

... descriptive, narrative, and reader-­friendly, they do not engage in the dominant discourses of early modern travel —  discovery, encounter, difference — and so have failed to earn a place in the travel archive, both foreign and domestic. Not all local travel texts shunned these tropes, however...

.... If one looks at medieval and early modern narratives or maps, how- ever, one is not surprised to find that the Mediterranean is presented in terms of travel: the stages of the journey; the towns, cities, and resting places; rivers crossed; ports approached and departed from. The Mediterranean is pre...

... on, in the very same sen- tence, to highlight his status as a traveler who is constantly on the move— specifically, as someone who has “passed thorghout Turkye, Ermonye the 150 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.1 / 2001 JMEMS31.1-06 Lomperis 2/26/01 7:02 PM Page...

... travelers’ self-perception and autobiographical portrayal. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219542 © 2020 by Duke University Press Medieval Pilgrimage as Heterotopia: The Pilgrim as Maritime Adventurer and Aspiring Crusader in Saewulf s Relatio de situ...

... description of that land, a description that is, of course, the result of the knight’s cultural investigation (visitación). A critical common- place insists that travel narrative is torn between two competing impulses: 526  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.3 / 2011 the drive to show...

... considered a pilgrimage narrative, as it includes a description of the Holy Land and Egypt. However, it also contains information about places beyond both the usual territory of pil- grimage and the places that Ludolf actually traveled to himself. For example, 38 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern...

.... 390 to ca. 418c.e. ) is well known as the writer of a world history that condensed vast amounts of classical   Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.1 / 2007 learning into a summary that would become familiar in the western Middle Ages. A native Spaniard, he traveled eastward...

... “Admiranda narratio fida tandem” [A narrative much to be wondered at but true nonetheless].3 Resonance, on the other hand, arose from accounts written from the practical and scholarly mindsets evolving in sixteenth- century travelers’ narratives. This early ethnographic perspective, Joan Pau...

... httpmedren.aas.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-029  © 2009 by Duke University Press English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative Volume 40 / Number 3 / Fall 2010 Edited by David Aers and Nigel Smith...

...-volume account of his travels around Europe; it was never published in the early modern period, circulating only in manuscript form. It is written in classical Greek, modeled on the writings of ancient Greek historians such as Plutarch, Thucydides, and Herodotus. 31 Until recently, Nicander's work...

... and Johann Ludwig Gott- fried prolonged the influence of the De Bry collection in early modern Ger- many for a considerable time, and with it the modifications made to the original narratives by the publishing family and their associates. a Notes 1 On the De Bry family and their collection...

... paradise by means of a per- 10 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 ilous bridge over the entrance to hell. Two homilies interrupt Owein s story. After exiting the purgatory, the knight travels to the Holy Land, returns, and becomes an Irish interpreter for a Cistercian monk.4...

... of pilgrims guides between 1500 and 1590, for example, some twenty-four editions of Niccolò of Poggibonsi s Viaggio were published there.11 From the mid-fifteenth century, Mandeville s hugely popular Book 4 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 of Marvels and Travels (originally...

... dreams, the two Scot- tish works demonstrate that the multivalent East was as imaginatively potent 200  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 a place for stay-at-home writers as it was for far-traveling explorers and that it could be invoked for the purposes of settling...

...Shankar Raman Examining a variety of moments drawn from early volumes in the India Occidentalis and India Orientalis series published by Theodor De Bry and his family, this essay studies the relationship of selected De Bry engravings to the travel narratives they purport to illustrate. It explores...

... negotiation and ambassadorial ritual.7 Thus, early modern world maps and the cartographic discourse sur- rounding them are political fictions, and they should be subject to the same sort of rigorous inquiry as other genres of conquest narrative. Scholarship on the relationship between...