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COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association
Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte de Hese's 'Itinerarius' and Medieval Travel Narratives. By SCOTT D. WESTREM. (Medieval Academy Books, 105) Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America. 2001. xxiii + 359 pp. $30. ISBN 0-915651-10-6 (hbk).
This book, the fruit of two decades of intermittent work developing the author's doctoral thesis (Northwestern University, 1985), is a study of what purports to be an account of a pilgrimage undertaken by the shadowy Johannes Witte de Hese, apparently a cleric in the diocese of Utrecht but not more precisely identifiable, to Jerusalem in 1389. Unlike Hans Tucher's genuine travel account of ninety years later, recently edited by Randall Herz (Die Reise ins Gelobte Land Hans Tuchers des Alteren (1479-1480)(Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002)), Witte's is a fantasy pastiche of places and data culled from a variety of medieval sources. It tells us nothing about Jerusalem but focuses on...
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