General Introduction: Global Travel Writing [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto] 

PART 1 - CONTEXTS
1. Travel and Geography 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 [Carissa M. Harris, Temple University]
5. Race [Sierra Lomuto, Rowan University]
6. Global Premodern Whiteness [Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee University]
7. Manuscripts [Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University]
8. Disability in Transit [Jonathan Hsy, George Washington U]

I. The Nordic World and the British Isles
9. Iceland [Sverrir Jakobsson, University of Iceland]
10. Scandinavia [Jonas Wellendorf, UC Berkeley]
11. England and Scotland [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto]
12. Ireland [Joseph Falaky Nagy, Harvard University]
13. Wales [Helen Fulton, University of Bristol]
II. France, Italy, and Iberia
14. France [Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University]
15. Iberia [Geraldine Hazbun, Oxford University]
16. Italy [Theodore J. Cachey Jr, University of Notre Dame]
III. The Empire and the Low Countries
17. The Low Countries and Frisia [Peter Stabel, University of Antwerp]
18. The Empire [Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona]
19. Bohemia [Michael Van Dussen, McGill University]
IV. Poland-Lithuania, Eastern Europe, and Byzantium
20. Poland-Lithuania [Paul Srodecki, University of Kiel]
21. The Teutonic State, Prussia, and the Baltic [Ralf Päsler, University of Marburg]
22. Russia [Ralph Cleminson, Oxford University]
23. Hungary [Balázs Nagy, CES]
24. Byzantium [Marina Toumpouri, University of Cyprus]
V. The Middle East and Asia
25. Arabia [Shazia Jagot, University of York]
26. Ibn Battuta [Christine Chism, UCLA]
27. Jewish Travellers [Martin Jacobs, Washington University in St Louis]
28. Persia [Ladan Niayesh, University of Paris]
29. China [James M. Hargett, SUNY Albany]

30. Santiago de Compostela [George Greenia, William & Mary]
31. Rome [Chiara Sbordoni, University of Notre Dame]
32. Jerusalem [Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London]
33. Mecca [Karen Pinto, Boise State]
34. China and India [Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz]
35. The Mongol Empire [Irene Malfatto, Independent Scholar] 
36. Southeast Asia [Marianne O’Doherty, University of Southampton] 
37. West Africa [Iona McCleery, University of Leeds]
38. The New World [Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto]

Afterword [Geraldine Heng, University of Texas]
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