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Healing and Hope in Two Women’s Travel Memoirs: The Trope of Travel as Panacea to Pain in Literature

Felicidad P Galang-Pereña

 

Abstract:

In medieval literature written after the ravages of the Black Death which decimated Europe’s populace (1347 – 1350s), such as the frame tales The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), the fear of contagion brought out the worst in human nature, resulting not only to physical death but also spiritual one.