IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 809: Depicting the New Borders: Between Myth and Reality
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna / Projecto 'El Mar como Frontera. Transgresiones Legales en el Atlántico Bajo Medieval', Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities |
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| Organiser: | Víctor Muñoz-Gómez, Instituto Universitario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna |
| Moderator/Chair: | Roberto J. González Zalacain, Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna |
| Paper 809-a | Bordering the Infinite: The Columns of Hercules in Medieval Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 809-b | War of Conquest, Military Leadership, and Chronistic Narration: From the Border of Granada to America, 14th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 809-c | Violence after the Conquest: Conflicts between the Indigenous Population and Europeans in the Canary Islands during the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Social History |
| Abstract | This session aims to contribute to the analysis of the distortion between the medieval conception of the mythical geography and the real experience of the sailors in the context of European Atlantic expansion. Kevin R. Wittmann analyses the mythical representation of the Pillars of Hercules. Muñoz Gómez describes the contact with the American reality, through conquest chronicles. Finally, González Zalacain explores the reality of social contact after the Canary Islands conquest. |