IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1004: Perceiving and Describing Otherness: Travel Reports from Southern Germany and Austria as Sources for Cultural History
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 1004-a | Cultural Foreignness as a Matter of Perception: The Example of Paolo Santonino's Itinerarium (1485-1487) (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1004-b | Travelling to Rome in the Holy Year of 1500: Views on Renaissance Italy from a German-Speaking Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1004-c | Experiencing the Other: Awareness and Perceptions of the Muslims in Hans Tucher's Account of his Journey to the Holy Land and to Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Language and Literature - German |
Abstract | Travel literature is a unique source to examine questions of otherness. This potential will be examined based on three different examples: |