Re-Orienting Female Mobility in the Early Global World

Race, faith, and multilingualism have emerged as central strands in the recent global turn in studying early cultures. Travel writing, in particular, offers unmatched opportunities to examine cross-cultural contact in the Global Middle Ages and early modernity. Women, however, have been sidelined in such studies. Received historiography often overlooks their mobility or their agency in it, while across Eurasia women largely engaged in nomadic migrations, bridal journeys, pilgrimages, or dipl...