"Thus, I measured it precisely and dilligently". Travelogue in the Time of Measuring the World - Peregrinus in Jerusalem by the Servite Angelikus Müller
2016
Abstract
This essay analyzes a new phase in the practice of travel writing on the example of the five-volume travelogue Peregrinus in Jerusalem which was written by the Servite friar Angelikus Maria Müller in Prague and published twice in the first half of the eighteenth century. Special attention is paid to Müller's long-term dual ties to Bohemia and Italy which conditioned and shaped the travel writing.
The author argues that the travelogue merged the learned practice of collecting and revising data with the Servite observant tradition of diary keeping.