Mapping medieval geographies : geographical encounters in the Latin West and beyond, 300-1600 / Edited by Keith D. Lilley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lilley, Keith D.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography, Medieval.

Geography in literature.

Cartography--Early works to 1800.

Cartography.

Geography.

Literature.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Summary:

"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."--pub. desc.

Contents:

Chorography reconsidered : an alternative approach to the Ptolemaic definition / Jesse Simon

Geography and memory in Isidore's Etymologies / Andy Merrills

The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St. Gall / Natalia Lozovsky

The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power

Reflections in the Ebstorf Map : cartography, theology and dilectio speculationis / Marcia Kupfer

'After poyetes and astronomyers' : English geographical thought and early English print / Meg Roland

Displacing Ptolemy? : the textual geographies of Ramusio's Navigazioni e viaggi / Margaret Small

Gaul undivided : cartography, geography, and identity in France at the time of the Hundred Years War / Camille Serchuk

Passion and conflict : medieval Islamic views of the West / Karen C. Pinto

Hereford maps, Hereford lives : biography and cartography in an English cathedral city / Daniel Birkholz

Shifting geographies of antisemitism : mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth's Life and miracles of St. William of Norwich / Kathy Lavezzo

Gardens of Eden and ladders to heaven : holy mountain geographies in Byzantium / Veronica Della Dora

Journeying to the world's end? : imagining the Anglo-Irish frontier in Ramon de Perellós's Pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory / Sara V. Torres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1107036917

9781107036918

OCLC:

835117018

Publisher Number:

99961966998