Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Travel" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

The University of Chicago Press Podcast · Sep 6, 2019 · 37m

Shayne Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion. He also talks about the role the Middle Ages played in creating modern conceptions of travel and travel writing. Legassie is an associate professor of English and Comparative literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Medieval Invention of Travel (University of Chicago, 2017).

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated…