ABSTRACT
Here all the different theoretical and analytic aspects pursued in the entire book are brought together, with further considerations of some additional texts, especially those by mystical writers such as Mechthild of Magdeburg, then by secular poets such as Juan Ruiz, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Heinrich Kaufringer. Here we also recognize that the interpretive model employed throughout the book could also be expanded and extended to modern literature because life is, after all, a trail. But medieval poets and mapmakers obviously understood this notion maybe more clearly than their modern successors. Both Gottfried von Strassburg and the didactic poet Ulrich Boner employed the concept of the trail explicitly and intellectually in their works and challenged their audiences to pay closest attention to their own life trails.
