0. Towards a Global History of Medieval Travel Writing [Introduction] [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto] 

PART 1 - CONTEXTS
1. Travel Writing in Late Antiquity [Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, University of Oklahoma]
2. The Crusades [Andrew Jotischky, Royal Holloway, London]
3. Women Travellers [Kim Phillips, University of Auckland]
4. Rape and Violence in Medieval Travel Narratives [Carissa M. Harris, Temple University]
5. Making Race: From Travel Writing to Discourse [Sierra Lomuto, Rowan University]
6. Globalising Whiteness: Transmission, Idolatry, and Fetishism [Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee University]
7. Travel Accounts in Manuscript and Print  [Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University]
8. Disability in Transit [Jonathan Hsy, George Washington U]
9. Ibn Battuta [Christine Chism, UCLA]
10. Jewish Travellers [Martin Jacobs, Washington University in St Louis]

I. The Nordic World and the British Isles
11. Iceland [Sverrir Jakobsson, University of Iceland]
12. Scandinavia [Jonas Wellendorf, UC Berkeley]
13. England [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto]
14. Scotland [Daniel Davies, University of Houston]
15. Ireland [Joseph Falaky Nagy, Harvard University]
16. Wales [Helen Fulton, University of Bristol]
II. France, Italy, and Iberia
17. France [Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University]
18. Iberia [Geraldine Hazbun, Oxford University]
19. Santiago de Compostela [George Greenia, William & Mary]
20. Italy [Theodore J. Cachey Jr, University of Notre Dame]
21. Rome [Chiara Sbordoni, University of Notre Dame]
III. The Empire and Central Europe
22. The Holy Roman Empire [Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona]
23. The Teutonic State, Prussia, and the Baltic [Ralf Päsler, University of Marburg]
24. Bohemia [Michael Van Dussen, McGill University]
25. Hungary [Balázs Nagy, ELTE (Budapest), CEU (Vienna)]
IV. Poland-Lithuania, Rus', and Byzantium
26. Poland-Lithuania [Paul Srodecki, University of Flensburg/University of Southern Denmark]
27. Rus' [Ralph Cleminson, Oxford University]
28. Byzantium [Marina Toumpouri, The Church of Cyprus & Centre  for Medieval Arts and Rituals, University of Cyprus]
V. Africa and the Middle East
29. West Africa [Iona McCleery, University of Leeds]
30. Jerusalem [Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London]
31. Arabia [Shazia Jagot, University of York]
32. Mecca [Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder]

VI. Asia and the Americas
33. Persia [Ladan Niayesh, Université Paris Cité]
34. The Mongol Empire [Irene Malfatto, Independent Scholar]
35. China and India [Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz]
36. Chinese Travel Writing [James M. Hargett, University of North Carolina, Charlotte]
37. South-East Asia [Marianne O’Doherty, University of Southampton] 
38. The Atlantic and the Americas [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto]


Afterword [Geraldine Heng, University of Texas]
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