Croyait-on au Moyen Âge que la terre était plate ?, avec Violaine Giacomotto-Charra et Sylvie Nony

[Rebroadcast] Of all the misconceptions about the Middle Ages, the one that undoubtedly tops the list is the claim that medieval people believed the earth was flat. It was supposedly necessary to wait for the Renaissance and its genius to rediscover, in the wake of Antiquity, that the earth was indeed round. Storiavoce invites you to debunk one of the greatest medieval myths. What exactly was the contribution of ancient knowledge to medieval societies? How was this contribution transmitted? What were its vectors, particularly in Late Antiquity? What do the texts of medieval people tell us about this? And, above all, how did this legend take shape? Our guest: Violaine Giacomotto-Charra is a professor of the history of knowledge and of Renaissance language and literature at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. She specializes in the writing and circulation of knowledge about nature at the end of the Renaissance. Sylvie Nony is an associate professor of physical sciences and a research associate at UMR 7219 SPHere. She specializes in medieval Arabic physics and is the author of, among other works, The Variations of Motion: Abū al-Barakāt, a Physicist in Baghdad, 6th-12th Centuries*. They have just published *The Flat Earth: Genealogy of a False Idea (280 pages, €17.80) with Les Belles Lettres. Subscribe to History & Civilizations magazine from €1 per month at www.histoire-et-civilisations.com Facebook:   / histoireetcivilisationsmag   Instagram:   / histoireetcivilisations   Twitter:   / storiavoce   Also read: "Destination Moon: Imaginary Voyages in the Time of Galileo": https://bit.ly/3rMmJWL "The Middle Ages Didn't Believe the Earth Was Flat": https://bit.ly/43JLhwR