| Paper 214-a | The Middle Atlantic Revisited: Late Medieval Legendary and Real Travels from the English Channel to the Middle Atlantic
(Language: English)
Juan Manuel Bello León, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de La Laguna
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez, Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de La Laguna
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
Current research has made it evident that before Sebastián Caboto's pioneering journey, some of the nearby countries surrounding the English Channel had participated in Castilian or Portuguese expeditions. In the endeavour to discover new paths, the late medieval traditional legendary account mingles with specific trading needs, this mixture producing a particular set of texts that have the low Andalusia and the Atlantic archipelagos (the Canary Isles, Madeira, etc.) as the fundamental geographical axis they revolve around. This paper intends to provide a survey of the recent research carried out in the Canary Isles on 14th-, 15th- and early 16th-century key texts describing both imaginary and real journeys through the African coasts and the Atlantic islands undertaken by English, Flemish, and French travellers.
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