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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SEEING THE SELF: PERSONAL MOTIVATION IN LATE-MEDIEVAL BRITISH TRAVEL ACCOUNTS By KELLY E. HALL A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2016 © 2016 Kelly E. Hall Kelly E. Hall defended this dissertation on May 10, 2016. The members of the supervisory committee were: David F. Johnson Professor Directing Dissertation Charles Brewer University Representative Anne Coldiron Committee Member David Gants Committee Member Nancy Bradley Warren Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my committee members for all their helpful advice and encouragement: David Johnson, Nancy Warren, Charles Brewer, Anne Coldiron, and David Gants. Drs. Coldiron, Gants, and Brewer were recently added to this project, so I especially want to thank them for agreeing to work with a student whom they never had for class. Dr. Warren, you have been unfailingly supportive. Thank you for trusting me to teach your course when you were away at a conference, and thanks for all the lovely dinners in Tallahassee and Kalamazoo. I promise to pay it forward. A special thank you to David Johnson, who has been my staunchest supporter, and who has performed so many kind acts during my time at Florida State: driving a van full of graduate students to New Orleans, attending my sessions at conferences, treating me to a pint in London, and allowing me to go march with the penguins.