Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe /
What is "Europe" and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds ne...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Gridding Europe's navel : Conrad Celtis's Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera Germanie
- A border studies manifesto : Maciej Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis
- The alpha and the alif : continental ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury
- Syphilitic borders and continents in flux : Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
- Cartographic curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic poetics of Os LusÃadas (1572)
- Conclusion.