
Nouveauté géographique et inertie épistémique dans les récits de voyage et la cartographie du Moyen Âge
Author(s) -
Damien de Carné
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica593
Subject(s) - humanities , context (archaeology) , globe , art , geography , psychology , archaeology , neuroscience
Although travel narratives in the Middle Ages are expected to reveal encounters with the wonders of the world, they are often wrong or misleading. In order to make up for gaps in the understanding and configuration of the earth's surface, and although they were dependent and ideologically constrained by the time and context, some authors such as Guillaume de Rubrouck and Jean de Mandeville sought to transmit new and more accurate geographical and cartographic knowledge, using various strategies based, in particular, on the traveller's experience.