Introduction: “ongoing” mobilities in the Early-Modern Spanish world

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

“…Following travellers through the changing sceneries of their mobilitynot only in specific geographies, a common tendency in studies of travel writingreveals often lifelong trajectories of continuous and perpetual mobility. In capturing these contexts, an auto/biographical and life history approach is vital (Corens 2018;Sau and Eissa-Barroso 2022).…”

“…In this, a more biographical approach truly helps, showing that the same people often travelled beyond the geographical focuses of scholarship on travels in the Levant or South-East Asia. How these practices and experiences of worldwide mobility shaped traveller's self-writing should be among the questions we investigate and contexts we consider (Roberts 2012;Sau and Eissa-Barroso 2022).…”