Albrecht Classen (ed.) - Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation

Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Fundamentals of Medieval
and Early Modern Culture

Edited by
Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge

Volume 22

ISBN 978-3-11-059503-1

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-061096-3

e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-060970-7

ISSN 1864-3396

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946857

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Albrecht Classen

Time, Space, and Travel in the Pre-Modern World:
Theoretical and Historical Reflections. An Introduction

Lisa M. C. Weston

Maha Baddar

Chiara Benati

Against the Dangers of Travel:
Journey Blessings and Amulets in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition

Sally Abed

Nurit Golan

Mapping the Road to Knowledge:
The Mosaic Floor of Otranto Cathedral, Apulia, Italy (11631165)

Naama Shulman

The Chronotope of Law in the Sachsenspiegel Illustrations:
A Pictorial Travel Through the World of Law

Doaa Omran

Albrecht Classen

Traveling to/in the North During the Middle Ages:
The World of Northern Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives

Romedio Schmitz-Esser

The Buddha and the Medieval West:
Changing Perspectives on Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages

Peter Stabel and Inneke Baatsen

At Home and on the Road:
Comparing Food Cultures in the Medieval Low Countries

Lia Ross

Anne Scott

Gavin Fort

Make a Pilgrimage for Me:
The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage

Ji Koten

Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles:
With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature

David Tomek

Charlotte A. Stanford

Thomas Willard

Travels with Johann Reuchlin:
Linguist, Lawyer, and Christian Cabalist

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 Len, Gaspar de Grajal, Martn Martnez Cantalapiedra, and Alonso Gudiel

Mara Dolores Morillo

Warren Tormey

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

Allison P. Coudert

Space, Time, and Identity:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Epidemic of Ennui in the Pre-Modern West

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Sally Abed is a Language Instructor at Alexandria University, Egypt, currently teaching classes on Travel Literature and Eighteenth-Century Literature. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2017. Her dissertation title is Mapping the World in Medieval and Early Modern European and Arabic Travel Accounts. Her research interests include travel narratives, monsters, cartography, womens studies, and cosmopolitanism. Her publications include: From Feet to Wings: The Importance of Being Bare-Footed in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon ( Utah Foreign Language Review 2014) and The Past into the Present: Teaching the One Thousand and One Nights ( The Once and Future Classroom , Special Issue on Teaching Medieval Arabic Studies Volume XIV, Issue 1, Fall 2017).

Inneke Baatsen is research officer at the Urban Studies Institute of the University of Antwerp. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Antwerp in 2016 with a study on the material culture of cooking and dining in late medieval and early modern Bruges (A Bittersweet Symphony: The Social Recipe of Dining Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bruges [14381600]). She is currently revising her thesis for publication, but has already published extensively on late medieval kitchens and dining experiences.

Maha Baddar is Professor of English at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation title is From Athens (Via Alexandria) to Baghdad: Hybridity as Epistemology in the Work of Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, and in the Rhetorical Legacy of the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement (2010). Her research interests include the medieval Arabic Translation Movement, the Arabic Commentary tradition on Aristotles Rhetoric, and medieval Arab feminisms. Her publication include The Arabs Did Not Just Translate Aristotle: Al-Farabis Logico-Rhetorical Theory, The Responsibilities of Rhetoric , ed. Michelle Smith and Barbara Warnick (Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2010), and Toward a New Understanding of Audience in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement: The Case of al-Kindis Statement on the Soul, Rhetoric Across Borders , ed. Anne Demo (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2015). Maha is currently translating Ibn Sinas Long Commentary on Aristotles Rhetoric into English for Brill Publishers.

Chiara Benati is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa, Italy. She has published, among others, essays on the Middle Low German influence of the phraseology of the oldest Swedish written sources ( Linflusso bassotedesco sulla fraseologia dello svedese tra Medioevo ed Et Moderna, 2006), on the Middle High German Dietrich epic and its reception in Scandinavia ( Laurin e Walberan: Introduzione, traduzione dallaltotedesco medio e commento , 2007). Her current research interests include Middle High German literature, Middle Low GermanScandinavian language contact, Faroese language and literature, as well as earliest (Low) German surgical treatises and their specialized terminology. This analysis of German vernacular surgical sources has not only resulted in various publications ( Dat Boek der Wundenartzstedye und der niederdeutsche chirurgische Fachwortschatz , 2012; The Manuscript Version of Hans von Gersdorffs Feldtbuch der Wundarzney in Copenhagen GKS 1663 4o and its Relation to the Printed Tradition, 2013; Surgeon or Lexicographer? The Latin-German Glossaries in Addendum to Hans von Gersdorffs Feldtbuch der Wundarzney , 2013; Zur berlieferung von Hans von Gersdorffs Feldtbuch der Wundarzney : Die Handschrift Kopenhagen GKS 1663 4to und ihr Verhltnis zu den Druckfassungen, 2014; Die niederdeutsche Fassung des Feldtbuch s der Wundarzney in Kopenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1663 4. Edition und Kommentar , 2017; Dat kinder bock: a Low German pediatric medical book in Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1663 4to , 2017; The Field Surgery Manual Which Became a Medical Commonplace Book: Hans von Gersdorffs Feldtbuch der Wundarzney, 2017), but also in the interest for charms and blessings, which are often included in medical compendia (Eine neue niederdeutsche Fassung des Longinussegens zur Blutstillung, 2016; Charms and blessings in the Middle Low German medical tradition, 2017; la guerre comme la guerre but with caution: Protection charms and blessings in the Germanic tradition, 2017; Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition, 2017).