Abstract
This introduction surveys some of the major genres and authors of medieval travel writing, focusing primarily on the Jewish, Latin Christian, and Islamic traditions and on cross‐cultural interchange in medieval contact zones like the Silk Roads. World Literature scholars will find that premodern travel narratives raise many of the same questions that have long been central to the world literature discipline, without always offering familiar answers. I close with New World travel writings and their inheritance of medieval ideas.
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