This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel – whether real or imagined – i

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic imposed immobility on large sectors of the world’s population, with confinement becoming an everyday reality. The lives of those wh

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest

This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period's dynamism, crea

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writ