Exploring Strange, New Worlds: Travellers and Foreigners in Medieval Iberian Literature
Journal: Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)
Year: 2014

This dissertation examines written travel accounts produced by Castilian and Andalusi authors and voyagers from twelfth- to fifteenth-century Iberia. The guiding research questions revolve around how journeyers encountered, reacted to, and reported on foreign peoples, lands, and customs as they left behind their homes and travelled throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. From their liminal position as persons displaced from their home societies and separated from the ideology and social relations o