The course provides students with insights into different aspects of early modern time travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course.

The course provides students with insights into different aspects of early modern time travelling. Source criticism to contemporary sources (chronicles, travel accounts, itineraries, books of travels, charters, etc.) within major topics (such as war campaigns, pilgrimage, university peregrination, diplomacy, trade and crafts) constitutes an important feature of the course.

Obligatory:

• Mączak, Antoni. Travel in early modern Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995, s. ISBN 0-7456-0840-X.

Topics

1. Primary and secondary sources
2. Roads and means of travelling
3. Itinerant rulers
4. Diplomats on the road
5. Peripatetic ecclesiastics
6. University peregrination
7. Trade and traders
8. Itinerant craftsmen
9. Pilgrimages
10. Inns and their hospitality
11. Cost of travelling
12. Final test

Final test concerning lecture topics.