IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1516: Rehearsing Empire: Travels and Diplomacy in Medieval Iberia
Thursday 10 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
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| Organiser: | Sacramento Roselló-Martínez, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sacramento Roselló-Martínez, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Paper 1516-a | Two Contrasting Visions of a Potential Colonial Space in Spanish Travel Literature: Peter Martyr d'Angheria and Fray Diego de Mérida (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1516-b | Rehearsing the Spanish Empire in Burgundy?: Diego de Valera, Raoul Lefèvre, and the Summas de historia troyana (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This panel seeks to open a discussion on the nature of exchanges between the Iberian Peninsula and other cultures and political entities in the Middle Ages, to ascertain how a vision of the other and a practice of real and symbolic colonization shaped or informed early modern imperial endeavors. The panel purposefully presents a variety of approaches to different primary sources, from the 13th to the 15th century, grounding their common interest in notions of perceptions of real and symbolic spaces. Through holy itineraries, travel accounts, and diplomatic exchanges, the panelists conceptualize otherness by understanding it as a source of cultural memory and identity; in so doing, they challenge the notion of belonging to an imagined community that ultimately defines its limits exclusively on geopolitical terms. |