Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and Přibík Pulkava of Radenín
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Imagination of others in medieval texts offers important insights in the “Gedankenwelte” of individual authors. Their comparison in time and space provides us with an understanding of long-term processes and enables us to recognize stability and change. An important segment of that analysis is the construction of geographical horizon. In this chapter, I will scrutinize geographical horizons in the Czech lands until 1400. This region was selected based on two reasons: (1) Its borders stabilized relatively soon and as such they were recognized by the first chronicler of Bohemia Cosmas of Prague (+1125). (2) Especially, historiographical texts written in that region constitute a clearly recognizable group of texts that are closely related textually and due to their manuscript tradition. |