Review of O'Doherty, Marianne, and Felicitas Schmieder, eds, 'Travels and Mobilities in the Middle Ages: From the Atlantic to the Black Sea' (International Medieval Research, 21), Turnhout, Brepols, 2015; hardback; pp. xliii, 344; 20 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. €90.00; ISBN 9782503554495

Abstract

This collection of fourteen essays has its roots in the 2010 International Medieval Congress in Leeds. Marianne O'Doherty and Felicitas Schmieder have done an admirable job of framing the book in their Introduction, successfully linking chapters by an international field of established and emergent scholars on a range of topics on medieval and early modern travel and mobilities. The following essays are arranged into four parts that extend chronologically from the seventh to sixteenth centuries and geographically from China to the Americas.