Abroad between Scylla and Charybdis: Swedish Seventeenth-Century Travel Advice Texts in Latin

The advisory texts for young men’s educational travel published in the seventeenth century at the universities of the then Swedish realm carry on the tradition of the genre ars apodemica, the formal methodology of the art of travel developed in the sixteenth century. This article has the following aims: first, to examine literary elements in, and traditions behind, some of the recurring thematic sections; second, to discuss the emphasis put on personal improvement in the texts; and third, to explore how Lutheran travellers were instructed to respond to the Catholic world in the period of religious confessionalism.