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International Tourism Was Constructed on Headless Blemmyes
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International Tourism Was Constructed on Headless Blemmyes

Last updated: May 13, 2025 1:43 am
Editorial Board Published May 13, 2025
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It was a grey, wet day once I visited The E book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World on the Morgan Library & Museum. Quickly, I used to be jostling fellow museum-goers within the small room to glimpse the huge reaches of time and house that lay throughout the present’s manuscripts, distant from the dreary world exterior.

The exhibition focuses on a Fifteenth-century world information referred to as the E book of Marvels of the World, by an unknown French creator. The Morgan brings collectively two of the 4 identified copies, plus different medieval European supplies that envision non-European cultures (in addition to two Persian manuscripts). The e book was meant as a quasi-ethnographic information to the wonders of the world, presenting 56 areas via an array of curiosities and stereotypes that may instill each pleasure and concern within the (particularly White and Christian) medieval European reader.

Konrad von Megenberg, The E book of Nature (Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475); Morgan Library & Museum

Manuscripts in circumstances are open to illustrated pages, accompanied by transient explanations, however once I was there, the images appeared to compel the viewers (myself included) greater than the data. A colourful woodcut print in Konrad von Megenberg’s The E book of Nature (revealed 1475), from Germany, depicts peoples “from the East” with a number of arms and heads, in addition to the “dog-headed Cynocephali” and the “headless Blemmyes.” 

“Pregnancy Ritual,” an illustration and outline in Pure Historical past of the Indies (c. 1586), is extra naturalistic and signifies a transition from tall tales of unique locales to extractive colonial enlargement. A picture of brown-skinned individuals in entrance of an ochre straw hut is especially hanging for its nuanced colour and dynamic patterning. It’s accompanied by a didactic that explains the Sixteenth-century textual content’s concentrate on the Caribbean’s pure assets to justify European expeditions there.

Marvels2“Pregnancy Ritual,” in Pure Historical past of the Indies (Caribbean or France (?), c. 1586); Morgan Library & Museum

The E book of Marvels is an instance of the sort of present that’s arduous to keep away from at United States archival artwork establishments just like the Morgan, whereby problematic historic content material, aesthetic attraction, and fantasy all intersect. Didactics just like the one for “Pregnancy Ritual,” together with an introductory point out of European biases that enabled colonialism and racially motivated violence, and a disclaimer about probably offensive materials, acknowledge the damaging seeds these supplies sowed. 

On the similar time, The E book of Marvels is an opportunity for museum-goers to marvel at each the fantastic thing about the manuscripts and the attraction of travelogues that promise journey and an escape from the on a regular basis, whether or not within the Fifteenth century or the twenty first. What I’d prefer to see are the travelogues that mythologize the eccentricities of the medieval European. I’m certain that somebody exterior of Europe within the Center Ages imagined a dog-headed Cynocephali dwelling someplace in France.

Marvels7Hanns Rüst, Map of the World (Augsburg, Germany, c. 1480); Morgan Library & MuseumMarvels5Natural (Compendium salernitanum), in Latin (Venice, Italy, c. 1350–75)Marvels9Element of Map of the Holy Land, in Latin (Venice (?), Italy, c. 1300); Morgan Library & Museum

The E book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World continues on the Morgan Library & Museum (225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan) via Could 25. The exhibition was curated by Joshua O’Driscoll.

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