Jaffa Pilgrim Galleys Continue

1505

Venetian pilgrim galleys still carried European Christians across the Mediterranean to Jaffa and overland to Jerusalem, a centuries-old trade that the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluks would soon complicate. Passengers kept journals noting the heat, the food, the sea sickness, and the vast marvels of the Holy Land. The pilgrim accounts, preserved in manuscript and print, constitute one of the richest bodies of late medieval travel literature.