Travel has been a very basic, day-to-day experience of human beings throughout time. Visiting work places, relatives, or cultic sites always includes personal movement and transportation, regional travel is therefore one of the few universal human experiences. In this article, however, "travel" will be understood as human movement over a larger geographic area; despite such a necessarily rather vague definition, the ambiguity between regional and trans-regional travel remains an underlying structure in the history of travel.There has been so much research done on the cultural practice of travel that it would not make much sense to outline all of it in chronological order. Doing so would necessarily obscure the omnipresence of historical research regarding travel and the highly interdisciplinary approach of this research. Several general overviews of travel in the Middle Ages do exist (e.g.
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