Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	830
Title	Depicting the New Atlantic Borders: Between Myth and Reality
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Instituto de Estudios Medievales & Renacentistas (IEMyR), Universidad de La Laguna / Proyecto 'Transgresiones legales en el Atlántico bajomedieval', PGC2018-095719-B-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, España
Organiser	Víctor Muñoz-Gómez, Departamento de Geografía e Historia, Facultad de Humanidades / Instituto de Estudios Medievales & Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna
Moderator/Chair	Roberto J. González Zalacain, Instituto de Estudios Medievales & Renacentistas (IEMyR), Universidad de La Laguna
	Enrique José Ruiz Pilares, Departamento de Historia, Geografía & Filosofía, Universidad de Cádiz
Paper 830-a	Bordering the Infinite: The Columns of Hercules in Medieval Maps (Language: English) Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann, Instituto de Estudios Medievales & Renacentistas (IEMyR), Universidad de La Laguna Index Terms: Art History - Painting; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Maritime and Naval Studies; Mentalities
Paper 830-b	War of Conquest, Military Leadership, and Chronistic Narration: From the Border of Granada to America, 14th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Víctor Muñoz-Gómez, Departamento de Geografía e Historia, Facultad de Humanidades / Instituto de Estudios Medievales & Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Maritime and Naval Studies; Military History; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 830-c	Historiography of the Repartimientos and Encomiendas in Puerto Rico: The Case of the Repartimientos with Natives in Encomiendas of 1510 (Language: English) Juan Carlos García Cacho, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico Index Terms: Administration; Economics - General; Historiography - Medieval; Social History
Abstract	This session tackles how the medieval conception of the beyond frontiers of the World was changing as a result of the European exploration and colonisation in the Atlantic Ocean from the 10th-16th Centuries. It starts from the position that the transformation of Atlantic borders' perception in Western European culture in the Middle Ages and the beginning of Early Modern Ages can be considered as an evolving junction between myth, scholarly knowledge, and empirical experience. Therefore, Kevin R. Wittmann analyses the mythical representation of the Pillars of Hercules. Muñoz Gómez continues wondering about narratives of the contact between European conquerors and indigenous populations in the Canary Islands and America. Finally, García Cacho analyses in historiographic terms the vague distinction one observes between the terms encomienda and repartimiento when studying the case of the repartimientos made in Puerto Rico in 1510.