In the Footsteps of Medieval Traveler
In the Footsteps of Medieval Traveler

Summary/Abstract: Could one say that medieval man lived in a global and cosmopolite world? Medieval times left us texts abundant in global themes, subjects, purview, and imaginary. The most famous example is known to everyone: The Thousand and One Nights. This paper discusses how medieval man created, transformed and adapted the concept offictional (Hell and Paradise) and foreign world (Balkan lands and people in the eyes of Western pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land). Various documents including chronicles, hagiography, apocrypha, canon law texts are used as sources. Another aim is to examine some stereotypes, which arose between communities and people swhich never met each other before. Were the Balkan lands of plenty of dark forests? Were the Latins cannibals or were the Greeks tender and feminized?

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