IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 119: Mental Journeys
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Mittelalterzentrum, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg |
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| Organisers: | Andreas Bihrer, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Henrike Manuwald, Deutsches Seminar - Germanistische Mediävistik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Henrike Manuwald, Deutsches Seminar - Germanistische Mediävistik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Paper 119-a | Earthly Journeys – Divine Destinations (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities, Philosophy |
| Paper 119-b | A Medieval Map of a Literary Journey: Ovid's Tristia 1.10 in a 15th-Century Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 119-c | The Journey of species: Brain-Ventricle Drawings as Late Medieval Maps of Cognition (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Philosophy |
| Abstract | The session focuses on the relationship between mapping and imagination, starting with an analysis of Pierre D'Ailly's Imago mundi, a work that provoked Columbus' expedition in 1492. While the maps in Imago mundi preceded Columbus' imaginary and actual travels, the 15th-century map, analysed in the second paper, can be identified as an illustration of a particular journey narrated in a literary text. This map in turn inspires mental travels of the recipients. The concluding paper explores preconditions of mental travels by analysing medieval brain-ventricle drawings. It argues that their visualising function is similar to that of maps. |