1. Week 3: Wednesday 20 October
Travel & Travellers
Galleons & Caravans
Week 3: Wednesday 20 October

2. 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
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,
Rustichello da Pisa.
Zhou Daguan, Chinese,
Ibn Battuta, Moroccan,
Ibn Juzayy.
Sir John Mandeville, English,
Authenticity in Travel Literature

3. Wang Hui et al. The Kangxi Emperor on his Southern Inspection Tour (detail) s. Beijing: Palace Museum.

4. The Queen’s Dominions at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The Queen’s Dominions at the End of the Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1898.

5. Charles Jervas. Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After 1716
Charles Jervas. Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland.

6. Paul Gauguin. Deux Tahitiennes. 1899
Paul Gauguin. Deux Tahitiennes New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

7. Tony Blair. A Journey. London: Hutchinson, 2010.

9. Anonymous. La caravane de Marco Polo voyageant vers les Indes. 1375.

10. Marco Polo’s travels, 1271-1295. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998.

11. Moroccan stamp depicting Ibn Battuta.

12. Ibn Battuta’s travels.

13. Illustration from an early printed edition of
John Mandeville’s Travels.

14. Illustration of defloration rite, from Mandeville’s Travels.