Los "Mirabilia" medievales y los conquistadores y exploradores de América

  1. Paniagua Pérez, Jesús
Revista:
Estudios humanísticos. Historia

ISSN: 1696-0300

Any de publicació: 2008

Número: 7

Pàgines: 139-159

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Estudios humanísticos. Historia

Resum

The medieval world, as well as its humanistic tendencies, was projected on the American territories. Chronicles and other writings reflected the old European tradition, both in form and in contents. Monsters, mermaids, millenarianisms, and other phenomena, including those of Biblical character, managed to persist in the minds of the Spaniards who traveled to the New World.