ABSTRACT
Travelling and travel literature are deeply connected with space: They are grounded in the need for orientation and the desire to possess reliable information about itineraries and places. This chapter aims to explore how travel, the history of salvation, temporality, and spatiality were fundamentally connected (Mandeville), how pragmatic and salvation-historical temporality evolved within the context of a concrete journey (Tucher), and, finally, how these patterns were transformed by an altered view of piety (Ecklin). Tucher’s travel account was reprinted several times in the 1480s until it was replaced in public favour by the more up-to-date travelogue of Bernhard von Breydenbach. The book listed in literary histories under the modest title Le livre de Mandeville or simply Travels/Reisen, is a complex construction, both unwieldy and charming. During the course of the fifteenth century, Mandeville’s Travels became one of the most popular books in the West.
