Lectures:

1. Primary and secondary sources

2. Roads and means of travelling

3. Viking migration

4. Knight crusaders

5. Itinerant Kings and Queens

6. Diplomats on the road

7. Peripatetic ecclesiastics

8. University peregrination

9. Pilgrimages

10. Trade and traders

11. Itinerant craftsmen

12. Libri viatici: portable books

13. Final test

Required readings:

LABARGE, Margaret Wade. Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. London: Phoenix, 1982. ISBN: 0-75382-041-2.

OHLER, Norbert. The Medieval Traveller. Woodbridge: The Boydel Press, 1989. ISBN: 978-1-84383-507-3.