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With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in
the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never
before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this volume outlines and explores
current and future research trajectories with a focus on Latin travel literature
from c. 1200-1500. Combining digital, codicological, literary, philological, and
anthropological approaches the volume analyses the ways in which these texts were
produced, distributed, received, read, and how they can be interpreted. It argues
for the importance of re-evaluating these texts and revisiting their contents in
light of new methodological and theoretical approaches.