Recent discussions have centred intensively on the question how to establish new cultural–historical perspectives that are no longer Eurocentric. Mediaevalists and Early Modernists have strongly endeavoured to grasp and to realise Global Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies, but despite many efforts, we are not easily getting away from traditional approaches, especially because many of our sources do not lend themselves quite so easily for that task. Whereas previous scholars have turned their attention primarily towards crusader and pilgrimage accounts, and then also towards some travelogues (Marco Polo), within the German context one early fifteenth-century text stands out that allows us to open the window wide towards a more global perspective, Hans Schiltberger’s Reisebuch. This experienced tremendous popularity in the German-speaking lands far into the late seventeenth century, illustrating the life of a slave who was traversing many countries in the Middle East and even Northern Asia in military service. This account can in fact be regarded as a unique contribution in terms of the author’s worldview and experiences. He was, involuntarily, one of the first European to report so extensively about those countries located east of the Holy Land and to discuss their political and military history.

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中世纪晚期的全球旅行：约翰·席尔特伯格的目击者记述

最近的讨论集中在如何建立不再以欧洲为中心的新文化历史观点的问题上。中世纪主义者和早期现代主义者一直在努力掌握和实现全球中世纪和早期现代研究，但尽管付出了很多努力，但我们并没有轻易摆脱传统方法，特别是因为我们的许多资料来源并不那么容易完成这项任务. 以前的学者主要将注意力转向十字军和朝圣记述，然后也转向一些游记（马可波罗），但在德国语境中，一个 15 世纪早期的文本脱颖而出，使我们能够打开通往更全球化视野的窗口, Hans Schiltberger 的 Reisebuch。直到 17 世纪后期，这本书在德语国家大受欢迎，描绘了一个在中东甚至北亚许多国家服兵役的奴隶的生活。就作者的世界观和经历而言，这个叙述实际上可以被视为独特的贡献。他不由自主地成为第一个如此广泛地报道位于圣地以东的国家并讨论它们的政治和军事历史的欧洲人之一。