Los "Mirabilia" medievales y los conquistadores y exploradores de América
ISSN: 1696-0300
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 7
Pages: 139-159
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios humanísticos. Historia
Abstract
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.