'We, you, they': Writings of Jewish Travelers from 15th Century in the Light of the Concept of Otherness
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https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.015.011Keywords:
Travelogue, Travel writing, Alterity, Middle Ages, Identity, Communities, Arabic, Christian, Mešulam of Volterra, Obadyah of BertinoroAbstract
Travel literature could be considered as the nexus of numerous types of texts within the narrative genre. Nevertheless, the information it offers from historical, geographical or sociological, among others, points of view, converts it into a register from which are concealed the own experiences of travelers in their journeys. In this sense, these ones are specially relevant in identity studies in which it is possible to observe the alterity that the authors show in their writings describing, in a constant way, their perception of the places they visited but also different communities, Jewish and non-Jewish, they find. In these pages it is offered a study about the impressions of 15th century Medieval authors in their voyages.
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