IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1218: Intercultural Contacts and Perceptions in Medieval Literature
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Ursula Bieber, Institut für Slawistik, Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 1218-a | The Discovery of the Far East in Medieval Russian Travelogues (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Slavic |
Paper 1218-b | Experience of the Strange: Fauna and Flora in Medieval Travelling Reports (Marco Polo, Oderich von Portenau, and Ibn Battuta) (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Maritime and Naval Studies, Science |
Paper 1218-c | How to Explore and How to Document the Intercultural Differences, with a Short Scientific Introduction of Jan Cemper-Kiesslich (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - German, Science |
Paper 1218-d | Molecular Migration: Natural Scientific and Medical Explorations Amending the Conventional Historiographical Record (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Medieval, Medicine, Science |
Abstract | Medieval people met on their real and imaginative travels as well foreign men and women as strange landscape, found strange plants and animals. The perception of these beings was highly influenced by Christian European knowledge and thinking. This included prejudice on the one hand and extraordinary great admiration for the marvellous exotic on the other hand. The paper will give examples for documents, pictures e.a. of different parts of the world and discuss the extraordinary presentations of foreign countries and creatures. |