Book ID: CBB046284747

Dislocations. Maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages (2020)

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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 argument that the representation of space can only fully be understood by reference to elements of disorder and dislocation. Classical geography was filled with lacunae, contradictions, and uncertainties, but also had the capacity for dextrous play; the medieval reception of this unstable geography was thoughtful and creative. Geographies of dislocation are not only experienced historically but also given imaginative expression in artistic movements such as Borgesian fiction. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger--in archives, in memories, in ruins--to be retrieved and reanimated in surprising and revealing ways

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Authors & Contributors
Angelov, Dimiter
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Šolar, Renata
Piechocki, Katharina N.
Calzona, Arturo
Zorn, Matija
Concepts
Science and culture
Maps; atlases
Geography
Cartography
Travel; exploration
Science and society
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
Early modern
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Mediterranean region
Byzantium
Middle and Near East
Papua New Guinea
New Guinea
Institutions
British Library
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