By Aventure Yfalle: Travelers and Tourists - We're All On the Road Together
Location
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
12-11-2007 10:00 AM
Description
In the Middle Ages, the idea of pilgrimage as a metaphor for life was a wide-spread one, the physical journey standing in for a spiritual one, a metaphor still embodied in many churches today through the stations of the cross. The power and currency of this metaphor derived from the idea that journeys such as these were meaningful, fraught with toil [travail], hard, challenging, rewarding rather than pleasurable. Geoffrey Chaucer, however; I think was using this metaphor in another way, a sense conveyed for him by the phrase, "by aventure yfalle," a phrase which suggests that the travelers are thrown together by chance, and their stories and adventures are what life is made up of. the funny, the sad, the unexpected, the predictable, in short, all those things that play a part in life, revealing the world to us and us to the world, experiences through which we are transformed and by which we transform the world. In this introduction to the Sixth Annual Fall Humanities Symposium, Maggie Monteverde, who travels a lot but sadly doesn't write about it as much as many of the featured speakers do (or at least not in any formats anyone would find very interesting) will discuss ways in which travel itself, in all walks of life and in all forms, from the ritual to the extreme, transforms both the traveler and the world travelled in and written about. In the process she also hopes, at least in part, to take on the dismissal of the tourist in favor of the traveler.
Recommended Citation
Monteverde, Maggie, "By Aventure Yfalle: Travelers and Tourists - We're All On the Road Together" (2007). Humanities Symposium. 19.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2007/2007/19
By Aventure Yfalle: Travelers and Tourists - We're All On the Road Together
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
In the Middle Ages, the idea of pilgrimage as a metaphor for life was a wide-spread one, the physical journey standing in for a spiritual one, a metaphor still embodied in many churches today through the stations of the cross. The power and currency of this metaphor derived from the idea that journeys such as these were meaningful, fraught with toil [travail], hard, challenging, rewarding rather than pleasurable. Geoffrey Chaucer, however; I think was using this metaphor in another way, a sense conveyed for him by the phrase, "by aventure yfalle," a phrase which suggests that the travelers are thrown together by chance, and their stories and adventures are what life is made up of. the funny, the sad, the unexpected, the predictable, in short, all those things that play a part in life, revealing the world to us and us to the world, experiences through which we are transformed and by which we transform the world. In this introduction to the Sixth Annual Fall Humanities Symposium, Maggie Monteverde, who travels a lot but sadly doesn't write about it as much as many of the featured speakers do (or at least not in any formats anyone would find very interesting) will discuss ways in which travel itself, in all walks of life and in all forms, from the ritual to the extreme, transforms both the traveler and the world travelled in and written about. In the process she also hopes, at least in part, to take on the dismissal of the tourist in favor of the traveler.
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