Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500 : Fuzzy Geographies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrovskaia, Natalia I.

Series:

Knowledge Communities Series

Knowledge Communities Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print. The Imago mundi was translated into most European vernaculars and extracts from it were adapted into vernacular works ranging from encyclopedias to literary fiction, verse and prose. This is the first study to examine this tradition as a unified whole. It focuses in particular on the permutations undergone by the depiction of the region designated as ‘Europe’ in the original text and its later adaptations. The book demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the original text and how this enabled the transformation of this spatial description to suit the linguistic, political and cultural needs of vernacular adaptations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Starting Out. ‘Europes’, Hippogriffs, and Mathematics

Part I An Introduction to the Imago Mundi tradition

Part II Modes of Reading Geography

Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-077827-5

1-003-70853-6

1-04-078341-4

90-485-6317-8

9781003708537

OCLC:

1485006107