IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 336: Travelling the Catholic Empire and beyond: Tension between the Sacred and Profane in Medieval Travelogues, II
Monday 7 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen |
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| Organiser: | Kor Bosch, Faculteit der Letteren, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Marianne Ritsema van Eck, Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Paper 336-a | Familiarizing the Foreign: Descriptions of the East through Comparison with the West in Late 15th-Century Travel Narratives from Western Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Dutch, Rhetoric |
| Paper 336-b | Western Pilgrims in Mamluk Jerusalem: Creating Community and Denouncing Alterity through Ritual (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 336-c | At the Pontiff's Feet: Visitors to the Papal Court in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session engages with the interaction between aspects of the curious and devout in medieval travel accounts, and how these two work together to create an image of Christian empire. In the late medieval period, the boundaries of Catholicism were being defined, which contributed to a keen interest in the non-Catholic world. How did the medieval traveller engage with sacred, profane, and marvelous locations and phenomena within and without the realm of Western Christianity? How did engagement with such, at times curious, elements contribute to the delineation of this realm? |