This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in the early modern world.

Gábor Gelléri is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University

Rachel Willie is Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University

Introduction: travel and conflict Part 1: Language, translation and assimilation 1. Babel as a source of conflict: a case study of two discovery narratives 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: the roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci's Journals 3. "Strange accidents": navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia Part 2: Travel, religion and the violence of the road 4. Arming the Alps through art: saints, knights and bandits on the early modern road 5. Between hermits and heretics: Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent 6. The wars in Europe and the journeying play: Thomas Drue's The Duchess Of Suffolk (1624) Part 3: War, diplomacy and dissimulation 7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century 8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the narrativity of conflict 9. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant: Henry Blount's adaptations in Ottoman lands Part 4: The art of travel and imaginary journeys 10. Ars apodemica gendered: female advice on travel 11. Travel, utopia, and conflict: patterns of irony in early modern utopian narratives 12. Lunar travel and lunacy: reading conflict in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon