Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Travail and Travel Writing 1
6. Part One: Subjectivity, Authority, and the “Exotic”
7. 1. Exoticism as the Appropriation of Travail 19
8. 2. Travail and Authority in the Forgotten Age of Discovery 59
9. Part Two: Pilgrimage as Literate Labor
10. 3. Memory Work and the Labor of Writing 95
11. 4. The Pilgrim as Investigator 141
12. Part Three: Discovering the Proximate
13. 5. Becoming Petrarch 165
14. 6. The Chivalric Mediterranean of Pero Tafur 203
15. Coda: Beyond 1500; or, Travel’s Labor’s Lost 227
16. Notes 231
17. Index 289