ML100 Lecture 8: The World beyond Europe March 26
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The world beyond europe: monstrous race, mandeville , mongols, and other medieval travelers. We have what we assume to be a roman map, appearing in medieval text 9 th cen. Map- the world depicted as a circle with 3 continents: asia, europe, africa, and 3 bodies of water: mediterranean, nile, and the don river. Not all of these things are actual geography, but are included on an axis mundia- how they think the world is ordered. Medieval people did not believe the world was flat (attempt to make it look like we"ve come so far ) focus on europe, central bar focused on. Become more complex with time- add history and philosophy. Let there be dragons. in geography, medieval people concerned with boundaries of space, people, and time. Detect jewish and muslim things in maps as a part of european culture. Spain referred to by roman name to wipe away something.
