IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 545: Remembering Travels, Travelling in Memories, I

Organiser:	Jana Valtrová, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Moderator/Chair:	Jana Valtrová, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Paper 545-a	Remembering Pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem: Analysing Eyewitness Testimony in Early Medieval Topographical Texts and Travel Accounts (Language: English) Rebecca Lawton, School of History, University of Leicester / British Library, London Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 545-b	Il Milione: Marco Polo's Travel Memories? (Language: English) Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 545-c	Remembering the Journey (or Not): Authorship and Memory in 13th-Century Pilgrimage Accounts (Language: English) Jan Vandeburie, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Index terms: Anthropology, Mentalities, Religious Life
Abstract	The panel aims to explore the relationship between travel, memory, and travel accounts. Memory is a powerful tool, enabling the traveller to preserve and relive his / her experience from a journey and also becomes an important source for travel accounts. The first session of the panel focuses on the relationship between personal (in)experience of travel, memories of travel, and travel writing.