IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 609: Travel Literature in Latin: Between the Authority of Topos and the Power of Individual Experience
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | SAMS.on - Salzburg Medieval Studies Online (Salzburger Mittelalterstudien) |
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| Organiser: | Christian Rohr, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maria Elisabeth Dorninger, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 609-a | Medieval European Travellers to the Court of the Mongol Khan (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 609-b | From Unicorn to Rhinoceros: Medieval European Travellers to East Asia and the Loss of the Unknown (Language: English) |
| Paper 609-c | 'Alter Hannibal ego': Travelling Through the Alps in Late Medieval and Early Humanist Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Following new handbooks on Medieval Latin, such as the one edited by Mantello and Rigg (1996), it seems necessary to examine Late Medieval Latin by focusing on single genres. This session tries to compare reports on different kinds of travels: to the main pilgrimage centres, to the strange and miraculous Far East, and across the Alps. All of these travel reports combine both individual experience and common places. Even if it is sometimes impossible to distinguish the one from the other, these sources become important documents both for the reception of literary motifs and for the perception of the foreign world. |