IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 130: Discovery, Exploration, Expansion, and the New World: The Intrepid Navigators and the Ships That Made it Happen
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Moderator/Chair: | Carlos Molina Valero, Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo, Universidad de Salamanca |
| Paper 130-a | Shipbuilding From the North Shores of Iberia: The Vessels That Made it Happen (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 130-b | The Medieval Kingdom of Majorca and the Atlantic Ocean (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | This session explores several aspects related to the sea and the oceans during the Middle Ages. The first paper deals with the way in which the ships created in the Northern Shores of Spain (mainly Cantabria and the Basque Country) made the exploration of distant lands possible. The second paper will discuss the way in which the intrepid navigators of the kingdom of Majorca became skilled cartographers of the maritime routes that they discovered. The last paper will give an insight into the mind of Christopher Columbus as an explorer who was following the old tradition of the medieval voyager. |