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

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hiatt, Alfred (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2020]
Series:Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 218.
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Table of 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.