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Mapping Medieval Geographies
Author | : Keith D. Lilley |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107783003 |
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Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those 'imagined geographies' that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.
Mapping Medieval Geographies
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Author | : Keith Lilley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 1107781302 |
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This book explores how geographical ideas, traditions and knowledge were shaped, circulated and received in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Mapping the Medieval City
Author | : Catherine A M Clarke |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780708323939 |
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This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city.
The King s Two Maps
Author | : Daniel Birkholz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135884956 |
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While a culture may have a dominant way of "mapping," its geography is always plural, and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginning with this understanding, this book traces the map's early development into an emblem of the state, and charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon. This book chronicles the specific technologies, both material and epistemological, by which the map shows itself capable of accessing, organizing, and reorienting a tremendous range of information.
The World Map 1300 1492
Author | : Evelyn Edson |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0801885892 |
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In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300--1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. She finds that both the makers and users of maps struggled with changes brought about by technological innovation -- the compass, quadrant, and astrolabe -- rediscovery of classical mapmaking approaches, and increased travel. To reconcile the tensions between the conservative and progressive worldviews, mapmakers used a careful blend of the old and the new to depict a world that was changing -- and growing -- before their eyes. This engaging and informative study reveals how the ingenuity, creativity, and adaptability of these craftsmen helped pave the way for an age of discovery.
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
Author | : Asa Mittman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135501112 |
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This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of monster studies, though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
Mapping the New World
Author | : Anne Armitage,Laura Beresford |
Publsiher | : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 1857598229 |
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The third book in a series for the American Museum in Britain, produced by Scala, showcasing the finest private holding of pre-1600 printed world maps on this side of the Atlantic.
Medieval Islamic Maps
Author | : Karen C. Pinto |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226126968 |
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The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.