ABSTRACT
In 1288 or 1289, during a visit to Paris, the Mallorcan philosopher Ramon Llull wrote The Book of Wonders, which narrates adventures of a man named Felix, who travelled the world in search of an answer to the question of why people ‘no longer love and know God’. In another fictional narrative, The Romance of Evast and Blanquerna, a wealthy married couple, Evast and Aloma, decide to take up the monastic life, leaving their worldly goods to their son Blanquerna. The notion that wild places are not suitable for human habitation, and are even to be feared, has been common one in history of Western civilization. Llull was born in 1232, of patrician Catalan parents, and grew up at the royal court of Mallorca. The principal objections that Jews and Muslims raise against Christian teachings concern the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity, and so Llull tried to show the ‘necessary reasons’ for the truth of these teachings.
