Struggling with Fear? Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts
about the Mongols

D 2023

Struggling with Fear? Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts about the Mongols

VALTROVÁ, Jana

Basic information

Original name

Struggling with Fear? Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts about the Mongols

Authors

VALTROVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Heidelberg, To Jerusalem and Beyond : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500, p. 93-116, 24 pp. 2023

Publisher

Heidelberg University Publishing

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00131275

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-96822-129-8

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998.c15843

Keywords in English

medieval Latin travel accounts; Franciscans; Mongols; emotional communities

Abstract

V originále

The mendicant travel accounts to Asia, namely those of John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck, express their fear of the Mongols. The paper demonstrates how understanding such emotional expressions within their travel accounts can help us broaden our understanding of these particular texts. Following Barbara Rosenwein’s theory of emotional communities, the paper suggests distinguishing between two different emotional communities and two systems of feelings that meet, combine, and even clash within one travel account – the audience’s emotional community and the traveller’s emotional community. Besides the problem of their mutual interaction within one text, the paper also examines expressing emotions in a subordinate position by using James Scott’s theory of ‘hidden transcripts’.

Links

MUNI/A/1495/2020, interní kód MU

Name: Obraz, text a zvuk v mezikulturní a mezináboženské komunikaci (Acronym: OTMEKO)

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

VALTROVÁ, Jana. Struggling with Fear? Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts about the Mongols. Online. In Bauer, Martin; Booth, Philip; Fischer, Susanna. To Jerusalem and Beyond : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023, p. 93-116. ISBN 978-3-96822-129-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998.c15843.

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VALTROVÁ, Jana. Struggling with Fear? Emotions in Medieval Travel Accounts about the Mongols. Online. In Bauer, Martin; Booth, Philip; Fischer, Susanna. \textit{To Jerusalem and Beyond : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Latin Travel Literature, c.1200-1500}. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023, p.~93-116. ISBN~978-3-96822-129-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.17885/heiup.998.c15843.

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