Travel Literature

For a woman like Kempe to be in Jerusalem and Rome, is very spiritual and surreal. Since she was in these places of high significance that held the last hours of jesus christ, she was ovewhelmlingly suppressed and saddened. She cries so loud as if she had seen the torture the Lord was put through. She cried in sympathy for Holy Mary as well, and cried as if she was Mary herself looking at her son being nailed to the cross and battered with all sorts of horrible treaters weapons. This travel gave Kempe a chance to rejuvenate her soul and for her to be forgiven of her sins. She gets that and more by the Lord and Mary. The travel was not just to reach destinations but to obtain the fulfillment of being in the presence of what she felt were spiritual beings such as the Lord. Her tears were rewarded by the an assurance of the Lord that she would make it through the trip despite her abandonment of her crew. There are many valuable spiritual and cultural experiences that she wouldn't have gotten without these travels. She came to Jerusalem and Rome to show her devotion and love for the Lord, and to be forgiven. She got much more than that, and the Lord protected her through the trip to Rome. Mandeville's travels were spoke about through myths and stories commonly heard of. The appeal of the world is to see if his stories of the disturbing things he had seen were real or not. The spiritural connections one gets from visiting holy lands are the main of point of interest for traveling to them. When he speaks aboout non christian cultures he speaks more about the materials and spices that are there. However he relates the Koran to christianity and says that the Koran is God's messenger.