Pero Tafur in Constantinople
In Andanças e viajes Pero Tafur includes a lengthy section on Constantinople, which he describes from four different points of view: as a religious man, he contemplates the relics with a mixture of medieval credulity and modern skepticism; as a medieval noble, he wants to confirm that his ancestry g...
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| Formato: | Artículo publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/afc/article/view/12845 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=anafilog&d=12845_oai |
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| Sumario: | In Andanças e viajes Pero Tafur includes a lengthy section on Constantinople, which he describes from four different points of view: as a religious man, he contemplates the relics with a mixture of medieval credulity and modern skepticism; as a medieval noble, he wants to confirm that his ancestry goes back to an emperor of Constantinople; as a bourgeois, he pays close attention to the international trade in which Byzantium was inserted; as a tourist, he visits the city and its monuments, and he expresses his opinions on the society and its customs. |
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