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In the footsteps of the medieval traveler

Summary/Abstract: Could one say that the medieval man lives in a global and cosmopolite world? Medieval times left us literatures abundant in global themes, global subjects, global purview, and global imaginary. The most famous examples are known to everyone: The Thousand and One Nights, whose provocative, extraordinary plots cut a swathe from the Near East all the way to China. Surveying a variety of cultural documents – chronicles, hagiography, apocrypha, canon law texts one focus of the paper is how medieval man created, transformed and adapted the concept of fictional (Hell and Paradise) and foreign world (the passing of Western pilgrims’ armies through thе lands of the Balkans on their way to the Holy Land). Another focus is to investigate some stereotypes, which were created at the meeting between different communities. Were the Balkans land of plenty or dark forest in the eyes of the Crussaders? Were the Latins cannibals or were the Greeks tender and feminized?

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