HISTART 62 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
15 Sep 2016
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Lecture 8: italian explorers i: marco polo / italian merchants in the. The periods we have little information on appear longer. We put enormous brackets around all of antiquity (800 bce-410. The horses of saint mark were taken from constantinople as spoils of war. Losers of the war pay tribute to the winner. Relate italy to the trade system: get amber, timber, and fur from russia / baltic sea. Marco polo as a traveler with subjective awareness, as an eyewitness. Idolatry (worship of idols: two causes for the suspicion of idolatry (you want to think of yourself as serving god) The artist creates something and by doing so assumes a. The artwork is suspected to elicit veneration that is not directed to god, but to the object itself. Question of religion(s: encounter the bases of your own religion when dealing with others, in a way, all religions are competing with one another.
