A HISTORY OF TRAVEL: FROM MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE HIPPIE TRAIL

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

The development of travel and travel narratives from the early medieval period through the 20th century, identifying why people travel and how those motives change over time. Examining spiritual journeys; fear and desire; the foreign gaze (east looking west); fictitious and vicarious travelling; geography/ethnography; antiquarianism; the gendered path; divine landscapes and the search for the authentic.