IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 811: Travelling Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary View of the Use of Texts as Transmitters of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Francisco de Asís García García, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Paper 811-a | Crusades, Pilgrimage, and the Role of the Vernacular in the First Descriptions of the Indies (14th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Other, Mentalities |
| Paper 811-b | Exploring Lithuania and Moscovia in the 15th and First Half of the 16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 811-c | Late Medieval Castilian Palaces through the Eyes of the Travellers (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | The conception of the Middle Ages as a static period is one of the most extended and erroneous clichés, but travel has always been present in medieval times becoming a dynamizing factor for societies and cultures, and a privileged vehicle for the dialogue between different territorial areas and mentalities. This session will stress the interest of texts as illustrators of these dynamics by examining through written sources aspects such as the encounter with a real and imagined Orient, the transmission of the knowledge of Antiquity, or the exploration of new geographic areas and monuments from Western eyes. |