Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Primary and secondary sources
2. Roads and means of travelling
3. Viking migration
4. Knight crusaders
5. Itinerant Kings and Queens
6. Diplomats on the road
7. Peripatetic ecclesiastics
8. University peregrination
9. Pilgrimages
10. Trade and traders
11. Itinerant craftsmen
12. Libri viatici: portable books
13. Final test Required readings: LABARGE, Margaret Wade. Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. London: Phoenix,
1982. ISBN: 0-75382-041-2. OHLER, Norbert. The Medieval Traveller. Woodbridge: The Boydel Press,
1989. ISBN: 978-1-84383-507-3.
Annotation
The course provides students with insights into different aspects of medieval travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics
(such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course.