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A presença do imaginário medieval no Brasil colonial: descrições dos viajantes

2008; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE MARINGÁ; Volume: 23; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4025/actascihumansoc.v23i0.2796

1807-8656

José Carlos Martínez Giménez,

Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices

The study analyzes the inheritance of the medieval imaginary present in the literary registrations first European travelers that visited Brazil in the first centuries of the colonial time. The composition of the those travelers' descriptions reveals, from their journey literature, paintings and cartography, images that are typical of the cosmology of previous centuries. In their writings, as well as in the ichnographic representations that they used to make a description of the recently discovered territory, the fauna, the flora and its inhabitants are, potentially, serious candidates to partake in the category of the fantastic universe, so present in the literature and in the ichnography produced by the men of the Middle Ages. The idea may be found in travelers of the 16 th and 17 th centuries such as Fernao Cardim, Jean de Lery, Pero de Magalhaes Gândavo and Gabriel Soares de Sousa.