![]() ![]() Travel and its literature ceased to be simply, or even largely, a matter of pilgrimage to the Levant. The second, forged by the great discoveries and reformations of the sixteenth century, reworked and enlarged, again in the revolutionary medium of print, the very content of European travel. By the waning of the fifteenth century, such printed literature had reconfirmed and enhanced long-distance pilgrimage as the primary narrative of European travel. The first, in the wake of Gutenberg, was the casting or recasting of pilgrims' accounts in the new medium of print. ![]() From the middle of the 1400s, what had been for centuries a travel literature of pilgrimage to the Holy Land underwent two "modernizations" in rapid succession. The history of early modern travel is captured in its volatile and evolving literature. ![]()
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