A. Winroth and J. Wei (eds.), The Cambridge history of medieval canon law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pages xx + 617 + figures 12 + maps 2 + tables 1. £140 hardback. $180.00 eBook.

Abstract

volume on the educational dimension of travel is probably sufficient to preserve its role as a distinct ‘life stage’ within the upbringing of elite men (and women), but it is evident that European travel was not necessarily a once-and-for-all rite of passage performed only by young adults. In this sense, if gentility was constantly in the making, travel could be regarded as something that contributed to this endeavour across the life course, rather than at one specific moment.