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To Jerusalem and BeyondNew Directions in the Study of Latin Travel Literature ca. 1250 - 1500International Workshop4 et 5 Avril 2019University of InnsbruckArgumentaire :With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive literary genre like never before. The texts within this genre contributed to increasing geographical and ethnographical knowledge about the East, to the evolution of vernacular literature, and to the development of an ever more empirical world view, which ultimately feeds into early Humanism and the Italian Renaissance (e.g. Petrarch). However, despite the signicance of these texts, they have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. Many are still awaiting modern critical editions and commentaries and are rarely studied in their own right as literary texts. This neglect appears all the more regretful owing to the fact that so many of these writers were leading theologians and thinkers of their time. With many of these individuals coming out the Dominican and Franciscan Orders, who extolled high learning, these travellers were scholars in their own right and contributed a vast amount to the development of Latin literary forms, styles and strategies during this period. By taking late Medieval Latin travel literature as a discrete literary genre and analysing the ways in which the travellers and pilgrims formulated their travel experiences in text we can learn much about the medieval world view.Programme :4. April 20199:00 Introduction and Welcome9:30 Evolving World ViewsChair: Martin Bauer (Innsbruck)Andrew Jotischky (London): Latin Pilgrim Views of Eastern Christians in the Context of OrientalismJana Valtrova (Brno): Struggling with Fear, Praying for Hope: Emotions in Mendicant Travel Accounts about Asia11:00 Coffee Break11:30 Audiences and UsesChair: Raoul DuBois (Zurich)Michele Campopiano (York / Darmstadt): Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts and the Franciscan Library of Mount ZionChristine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (Marseille): The Public of Latin Travel Narratives13:00 Lunch14:30 Intertextual and Narrative AspectsChair: Florian Schaenrath (Innsbruck)Irene Malfatto (Providence, Rhode Island): Travelling to the Far East: Between mirabilia mundiand New Epistemological PerspectivesMartin Bauer (Innsbruck): Petrarchs Itinerarium ad sepulcrum Domini nostri Iesu Christi as a Metatextual Pilgrimage16:00 Coffee Break16:30 On the Textual Tradition of Felix Fabri's EvagatoriumChair: Susanna Fischer (Munchen)Yamit Rachman Schrire (Jerusalem): The Pilgrimages of the Virgin Mary in Fabri's Evagatorium: a Lost Sermon?Kathryne Beebe (Denton, Texas): From Latin to Vernacular: Imagined Pilgrimage to Jerusalem19:00 Conference Dinner5. April 20199:30 Editing BurchardusChair: Ingrid Baumgartner (Kassel)Jonathan Rubin (Tel Aviv): Burchard of Mount Sion's Descriptio Terre Sancte: A Provisional Stemma and What We Can Learn from ItEva Ferro and Michael Schonhardt (Freiburg): The Manuscript Circulation of Burchard's Descriptio and Its Reception through the Centuries11:00 Coffee Break11:30 New Directions to EditingChair: Philip Booth (Lancaster)Susanna Fischer (Munchen): Maps and the Visualization of Dierent Textual Versions in Digital Editions of Travel LiteratureMarianne O'Doherty (Southampton): Editing Mandeville in Latin. From Manuscript to Print (and Beyond?)13:00 Lunch14:30 Roundtable and DiscussionIngrid Baumgartner (Kassel)Philip Booth (Lancaster)Susanna Fischer (Munchen)Jacob Klingner (Berlin)Florian Schaenrath (Innsbruck)OrganisationSusanna Fischer, Munchen : susanna.scher@lmu.deMartin Bauer, Innsbruck : martin.bauer@uibk.ac.atPhilip Booth, Lancaster : p.booth1@lancaster.ac.ukConference VenueUniversitat Innsbruck, Zentrum fur Alte KulturenLanger Weg 11, Eingang B1. Stock, Archaologisches Museum6020 Innsbruck