SMC201H1 Study Guide - Muehlenbeckia Florulenta, Odoric Of Pordenone, Dawn Treader
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Hagiography- the study of saint"s lives formulaic and conventional. Saint is precociously holy, wise and devout child. Here! what the severed head of st. edmund says and it is protected by wolf. 1000 c. in england = 2000 for us. (y2k) Were seen as signs, an approach of the end, doomsday. Christ in dr was seen as a triumphant warrior king versus this vulnerable wounded human figure. Mandeville- geographical proximity- pilgrimage for the holy land. Travel literature- john mandeville not his name claims to be authentic. This person read and made up his travelling. Within 20 years it was translated in 80 languages. Blow the moon things decay, everything after the moon is ever lasting. Mappaemundi would show places not based on size but of historical importance. Bellow: cotton tiberius mapppa mundi 11th c. birtish library. India is the closest to paradise. (earthly paradise). Sciapods- men with feet that give them shadow.