Book ID: CBB530679179

Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (2019)

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Piechocki, Katharina N. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 324
Language: English

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 new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.

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Review Karl Galle (2021) Review of "Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 399-400). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Svatek, Petra
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Holzer, Gerhard
Valerie Newby
Šolar, Renata
Storms, Martijn
Concepts
Geography
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Science and culture
Humanism
Printing
Time Periods
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
17th century
Medieval
19th century
Places
Europe
Germany
China
India
Saxony
Basel (Switzerland)
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