IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 840: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Changes in Worldviews during the Pax Mongolica
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Jong Kuk Nam, Department of History, Ewha Womans University, Seoul |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Janggoo Kim, Institute of Eurasian Silk Roads Studies, Dongguk University, South Korea |
| Paper 840-a | Tartar Slaves in Late 14th-Century Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 840-b | Others in the East in Apocalyptic Discourses of the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 840-c | The Marvelous Things (mirabilia) in the East Described in Jordanus Catala's Travel Account (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Mentalities |
| Paper 840-d | Marco Polo in the Catalan Atlas, 1375 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | This session aims to investigate cross-cultural contacts and changes in worldviews during the Pax Mongolica spanning from the mid-13th to the mid-14th century. The foundation of the Mongol Empire permitted European missionaries and merchants to make their way from Europe to China or vice-versa. Travelling through Asia and undertaking business and religious mission, they could encounter 'others', Asian peoples almost unknown to them. We will present research addressing the diverse aspects of cross-cultural contacts during the Mongol period: commerce between Europe and Asia, displacement of human beings and merchandises, attitudes towards otherness, European imagination, perception of Asia in travel accounts, and new knowledge of Asia incorporated to world maps. This forum will provide an opportunity to redress misunderstandings and prejudices about the Mongol period and to make a reappraisal of that period. |