ENGLISH 3C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eurocentrism, Middle Ages, Jacques De Vitry
7 Jun 2017
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Mappa mundi (cloth of the world: map, made on types of cloth to allow for such a big map, interesting to note that they believed in a round earth (before galileo"s time) Mandeville"s influence: nuremberg chronicles, 1493, set within the travel literature tradition, this text influenced by his writing, munster"s cosmographia (1544), germany, keep getting repeated and influence each other. Chapters 1-16: near east and holy land. In the desert trying to survive without the luxuries. Liminal and beyond the pale: outside of the imagination and outside of the view of the world (medieval view, these creatures go beyond that, descriptions, representations, explicit connections, combination of crossing and also exploding categories. Phoenix (5: griffin (19, amazons (18, hippopotaynes (18, half man, half horse, eat men when they take them. Christian views are slightly off (this idea of shifting the views)
