First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprisi

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations betwe

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative