IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 523: Mappings, I: Monstrous Races on the Margins
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
Paper 523-a | Foot Upside Down: How Sciapods Came to Inhabit the Antipodes (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Paper 523-b | Mapping Gog and Magog in the Medieval World: New Approaches to Ethnic, Religious, and Political Discourses in Apocalyptic Thought (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 523-c | A Macrobian Map Model?: Looking at 13th-Century Mappaemundi Through the Lens of 'Monstrous Men' (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Abstract | The so-called Monstrous Races - Antipodean Sciapods, apocalyptic Gog and Magog, Himantopodes, Blemmyes, and many others - were depicted on world maps and identified in writing throughout the history of Latin Europe. Usually, they are found on the geographical margins, however these are defined. This session's speakers explore reasons for the races' geographical placement, their role in medieval mental maps and ways in which apocalyptic attributes were projected onto them, and their interrelationships in a group of English mappaemundi. |