Mapping Medieval Geographies : Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600.
This book explores how geographical ideas, traditions and knowledge were shaped, circulated and received in Europe during the Middle Ages.
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Part I Geographical traditions; 1 Chorography reconsidered; An alternative approach to the Ptolemaic definition; Ptolemy and the geographical tradition; Chorography: the secret evolution; Traditions and mythologies: chorography in Late Antiquity; Towards a cartography of the imagination; 2 Geography and memory in Isidore's Etymologies; The geographical palimpsest: or the same world, four times over; Scintillating details: filling in the gaps in the geographical descriptions.
- Learning the worldMemory and geography; 3 The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St Gall; 4 The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon; The elements of imagination; An apostolic cosmography; 5 Reflections in the Ebstorf Map; Cartography, theology and dilectio speculationis; W/here; From specula to speculum; 6 'After poyetes and astronomyers'; English geographical thought and early English print; Geographical trends in Tudor England; Negotiating printed geographies; Thomas Malory and Arthur's Roman War campaign; William Caxton and Mirrour of the World.
- The Kalender of Shepherds and The Compost of Ptholomeus`Belatedness ́, reconsidered; 7 Displacing Ptolemy?; The textual geographies of Ramusio's Navigazioni e viaggi; Geographical traditions in Ramusio ́s Europe; Ramusio's worlds and his work; Maps and texts: diverging traditions?; Mapping `new worlds ́; Navigating Ramusio ́s geographies; Part II Geographical imaginations; 8 Gaul undivided; Cartography, geography and identity in France at the time of the Hundred Years War; De bello Gallico and its geographical legacy in late medieval France; Textual geographies; Visual geographies; Conclusions.
- 9 Passion and conflictMedieval Islamic views of the West; Comparison with other maps of the Mediterranean, the World, Egypt and Syria; Analysing the gaze: Maghrib maps in cartographic perspective; Subliminal levels of gaze: visualizing worlds within the world; Third gaze and beyond: the fundamental motif and the carnivalesque?33; 10 Hereford maps, Hereford lives; Biography and cartography in an English cathedral city; Giraldus Herefordensis; or, mapping the absent canon; Corporate self-confidence; or, mapping the mayor; Mapping the residentiary canon; or, an archivist of the landscape.
- Mapping NLI 700 or, convergent Hereford lives; 11 Shifting geographies of antisemitism; Mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich; Augustine, diaspora and shifting medieval geographies of antisemitism; Urban thresholds and geographies of suspicion; Between the universal church and the crowd of local worshippers: Thomas's cenobitic geography; 12 Gardens of Eden and ladders to heaven; Holy mountain geographies in Byzantium; Biblical mountains; Mountains and the desert fathers; Meso-Byzantine mountains; Holy mountains as loci memoriae.