Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel. It found,
imagined and manufactured new borders for its travellers to cross.
It celebrated and feared borders as places or states where meanings
were charged and changed. In early modern Europe crossing a border
could take many forms; sailing to the Americas, visiting a hospital
or taking a trip through London's sewage system. Borders were
places that people lived on, through and against. Some were
temporary, like illness, while others claimed to be absolute, like
that between the civilized world and the savage, but, as the
chapters in this volume show, to cross any of them was an exciting,
anxious and often a potentially dangerous act. Providing a
trans-European interdisciplinary approach, the collection focuses
on three particular aspects of travel and borders: change, status
and function. To travel was to change, not only humans but texts,
words, goods and money were all in motion at this time, having a
profound influence on cultures, societies and individuals within
Europe and beyond. Likewise, status was not a fixed commodity and
the meaning and appearance of borders varied and could
simultaneously be regarded as hostile and welcoming, restrictive
and opportunistic, according to one's personal viewpoint. The
volume also emphasizes the fact that borders always serve multiple
functions, empowering and oppressing, protecting and threatening in
equal measure. By using these three concepts as measures by which
to explore a variety of subjects, Borders and Travellers in Early
Modern Europe provides a fascinating new perspective from which to
re-assess the way in which early modern Europeans viewed
themselves, their neighbours and the wider world with which they
were increasingly interacting.
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