Hello, I'm Professor Suzanne Ellipscombe, and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Berlin to the Aztecs,

from Holbine to the Huguenoes, from Shakespeare to

samurai. Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage, and

witchcraft. Not in other words just the tutors, but most definitely also the tutors.

It's that time of year when many of us have been away, perhaps exploring somewhere new, perhaps returning to a favorite holiday destination.

And we've been revisiting some of the fascinating episodes of not just the Tudors where we've ventured into the unknown with travelers in the early modern period.

These journeys not only open their eyes to sights and wonders they'd never seen before but sometimes led to expanding human

knowledge of places that were previously unknown to all but their

indigenous inhabitants. This episode which we first put out in September 2021 explores a lesser-known story of

encounters with foreign worlds and peoples and what the experience of travel made the

travelers learn about themselves. On the 4th of July, 15th. travel lost his 27-year-old younger brother Henry.

The brothers had travelled to Jerusalem,

risking their lives by attempting to cross the desert

while weak with illness.

The devastation of Henry's death rendered Fines desperately sick himself.

But he recovered and 20 years later he sat down to write an account of his grief,

his travels and his travails, which he called of his

Ithravails, his itinerary.

My season guide is Dr. Eva Johanna Holmberg.

She holds an Academy research fellowship at Helsinki University and has spent

her career working on travel writing and cultural encounters. Her first book was Jews in the Early Modern Imagination and she has edited an issue of the

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