TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The Indies and the medieval West : thought, report, imagination
T2  - Medieval voyaging
A1  - O'Doherty, Marianne
LA  - eng
PP  - Turnhout
PB  - Brepols
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2486963
AB  - This volume offers a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary treatment of European representations of the Indies between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Drawing on encyclopaedias, cosmographies and cartography, romance, hagiography, and legend, it traces the influence of classical, late antique, and early medieval ideas on the later medieval geographical imagination, including the imagined and experienced Indies of European travellers. Addressing the evidence of Latin and vernacular manuscripts, the book explores readers' encounters with the most widely read travellers' accounts, in particular, those of Marco Polo, Odorico da Pordenone, and Niccolò Conti. Chapters on The Book of Sir John Mandeville, medieval Europe's most idiosyncratic yet popular work of geography, alongside world maps produced across Europe, point to the ways in which representations of the Indies were inflected by temporal concerns, specifically, their relationship to Latin Christendom's past, present, and future.
SN  - 978-2-503-53276-9 sidottu
KW  - Geography, Medieval : Europe.
KW  - Public opinion : Europe : History : To 1500.
KW  - matkakirjallisuus
KW  - matkat
KW  - maantiede
KW  - keskiaika
KW  - matkakertomukset
KW  - kulttuurikosketukset
KW  - reselitteratur
KW  - resor
KW  - geografi (vetenskaper)
KW  - medeltiden
KW  - reseberättelser
KW  - kulturkontakter
KW  - East Indies. : Description and travel. : Early works to 1800.
KW  - East Indies. : Foreign public opinion, European. : History. : To 1500.
KW  - Etu-Intia
KW  - Främre Indien
KW  - Taka-Intia
ER  -