Week 3: Wednesday 20 October Travel & Travellers Galleons & Caravans Week 3: Wednesday 20 October
Travel & Travellers Who was travelling in the early modern world? Who was travelling in the early modern world? Characteristics of travel writing as an historical source Travel & Power Genre Post-colonial and gendered readings of travel literature Paul Gauguin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters 1716-18. Creation of ‘The Other’ Travellers v Tourists Travel writing as autobiography Four Travel Accounts of the Mongol Empire / Yuan Dynasty Pax Mongolica. Dar al-Islam. Marco Polo, Venetian, 1271-95. Rustichello da Pisa. Zhou Daguan, Chinese, 1296-97. Ibn Battuta, Moroccan, 1325-54. Ibn Juzayy. Sir John Mandeville, English, 1322-56. Authenticity in Travel Literature
Wang Hui et al. The Kangxi Emperor on his Southern Inspection Tour (detail). 1690s. Beijing: Palace Museum.
The Queen’s Dominions at the End of the Nineteenth Century The Queen’s Dominions at the End of the Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1898.
Charles Jervas. Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After 1716 Charles Jervas. Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After 1716. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland.
Paul Gauguin. Deux Tahitiennes. 1899 Paul Gauguin. Deux Tahitiennes. 1899. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tony Blair. A Journey. London: Hutchinson, 2010.
Anonymous. La caravane de Marco Polo voyageant vers les Indes. 1375.
Marco Polo’s travels, 1271-1295. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998.
Moroccan stamp depicting Ibn Battuta.
Ibn Battuta’s travels.
Illustration from an early printed edition of John Mandeville’s Travels.
Illustration of defloration rite, from Mandeville’s Travels.