Transcultural Experiences in the Late Middle Ages: The German Literary Discourse on the Mediterranean World—Mirrors, Reflections, and Responses
Albrecht Classen
As recent scholarship has demonstrated, the world of Mediterranean exerted a tremendous influence not only on societies and cultures bordering Sea during late Middle Ages, but had huge mentality culture north Alps as well because it was here where East West met, exchanged ideas products, struggled to find, despite many military conflicts, some kind transcultural. The highly complex conditions in realm represented significant challenges promises at same time, no traveler from Germany or England, for instance, whether merchant pilgrim, diplomat an artist, could resist responding allure cultures. corpus travelogues pilgrimage accounts is legion, scholars have noted already quite time. But we can also observe literary reflections especially fifteenth century. emergence medieval early modern prose novel often predicated transcultural experiences, they entailed conflicts peaceful encounters between Christians Muslims. These texts did necessarily respond historical events, such fall Constantinople 1453, document intriguing opening up German, English, French, Flemish, etc., society world. novels discussed this paper demonstrate that Germany, particular, hinterland Mediterranean; somewhat farther apart, still closely connected. evidence will allow us identify how those were recognized then dealt with.
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