Mapping insularity: a visual history of islands in medieval and early modern worlds
Through the analysis of maps, texts and historical accounts and by considering the symbolic nature of islands, this book explores how the depiction of insularity encodes specific meanings and analytical levels which shed light on medieval and early modern worldviews.
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Brill
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | Through the analysis of maps, texts and historical accounts and by considering the symbolic nature of islands, this book explores how the depiction of insularity encodes specific meanings and analytical levels which shed light on medieval and early modern worldviews. Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 What Is an Island? Concepts, Definitions, and Phenomenology -- 1.1 Islands Surrounded by Water -- 1.2 Island vs Mainland -- 1.3 Floating Islands -- 2 Island and Ocean -- 2.1 Depicting the World in Medieval Europe -- 2.2 Maps, Ocean, and Islands in the Middle Ages -- 2.3 Islands, Ocean(s), and Mythical Traditions -- 3 Islands as Centers, Islands as Limits -- 3.1 Insular Center and Insular Peripheries in Medieval Maps -- 3.2 Towards a Redefinition of the Insular Margins: Periphery and Center in Early Modern World Maps -- 3.3 Periphery, Insularity, and Identity: The British Isles in the Medieval Worldview -- 4 Maps of Islands, Islands on Maps -- 4.1 Establishing Islands as a Genre: De insulis and Liber insularum -- 4.2 Mapping Islandness in Venice -- 4.3 The isolario Goes Global -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (X, 124 Seiten) |
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