THE MEDITERRANEAN IN TRAVEL LITERATURE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Beyond serving as a crucial crossroads between Western and Eastern cultures, the Mediterranean simultaneously connects and divides the trajectories and histories of the three continents that border it. Over the centuries, innumerable narratives and events have intersected within this geographical and symbolic space, where literary accounts have preserved, reimagined, and transmitted these experiences. This volume focuses on travel writings produced between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries by authors from Central Europe.