Dislocations : maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages / Alfred Hiatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiatt, Alfred, author.

Contributor:

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, publisher.

Series:

Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 218.

Studies and texts, 0082-5328 ; 218

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Geography in literature.

Geography, Medieval--Europe.

Geography, Medieval.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Space in literature.

Maps in literature.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2020]

Summary:

"Geography is most obviously understood as the establishment of spatial order to make space comprehensible, navigable, and susceptible to representation. Such representation comes in various forms, such as maps, written descriptions, poems, paintings, and legal documents. This book explores the argument that the representation of space can only fully be understood by reference to elements of disorder and dislocation. Classical geography was filled with lacunae, contradictions, and uncertainties, but also had the capacity for dextrous play; the medieval reception of this unstable geography was thoughtful and creative. Geographies of dislocation are not only experienced historically but also given imaginative expression in artistic movements such as Borgesian fiction. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger--in archives, in memories, in ruins--to be retrieved and reanimated in surprising and revealing ways."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The dislocations of classical geography

Aeneas and Ovid between Troy and Rome

Lucan's geography of dislocation

Mutatio

Migration, nation

Maps and vulgar tongues

Opicinus Dada

Ebstorf in Baroda: the Mappae Mundi of Gulammohammed Sheikh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-329) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hiatt, Alfred. Dislocations.

ISBN:

0888442181

9780888442185

9781771104043

177110404X

OCLC:

1121084779