Islam y musulmanes (y no solo) vistos por peregrinos en los diarios del siglo XV. Conocer al otro para conocerse a sí mismo

The mobility of pilgrims, crusaders and merchants of the "Middle Ages" helped to collect and disseminate information on environmental and human contexts, but, at the same time, contributed to the construction of a predominant stereotype in Western thought and in the perception of the “other” Muslim. The places of the regions crossed were for the pilgrims inseparable areas of the sacredness of the country and represented the border with the human context that belonged to the profane and unfaithful world. The peregrinationes that have come down to us seem to move on two parallel levels: tradition and innovation. From the pilgrimage diaries to the Holy Land at the end of the Middle Ages, representations of Muslims and Islam are presented, identifying the persistence of millenary culture and the changes produced from the true curiosity to know and understand the “other”. Attention will be paid to the travel diary of Anselmo Adorno (1470-1471).