Writing Mobile Lives, 1500-1700

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in the cultural history of early modern travel, cultural encounters, and the self- and life writing of early modern mobile people. She is the author of two books, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination (2011) and British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century: 'Slaves' of the Sultan (2022).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Mediating experience: the (Ailing) body, emotions, and senses of the traveller; 3. Recording material mobile lives; 4. Afterlives of travel: memory studies and travel memoirs; 5. Conclusion.