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).

• Contents 6
• List of Illustrations 10
• Author Biography 14
• Time, Space, and Travel in the Pre-Modern World: Theoretical and Historical Reflections. An Introduction 22
• A Vicarious Voyage in Queer Time: Hygeburg’s Hodoeporicon 97
• Texts that Travel: Translation Genres and Knowledge-Making in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement 116
• Against the Dangers of Travel: Journey Blessings and Amulets in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition 141
• Water Rituals and the Preservation of Identity in Ibn Fadlan’s Risala 186
• Mapping the Road to Knowledge: The Mosaic Floor of Otranto Cathedral, Apulia, Italy (1163–1165) 209
• The Chronotope of Law in the Sachsenspiegel Illustrations: A Pictorial Travel Through the World of Law 245
• Anachronism and Anatopism in the French Vulgate Cycle and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens 287
• Traveling to/in the North During the Middle Ages: The World of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives 306
• The Buddha and the Medieval West: Changing Perspectives on Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages 332
• At Home and on the Road: Comparing Food Cultures in the Medieval Low Countries 352
• The Revealing Peregrinations of Margery Kempe 380