By Dr Keith D. Lilley
Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways that geographical wisdom, rules and traditions have been shaped in Europe through the center a long time. prime students display the connections among Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later heart a while and Renaissance. The publication is split into elements: half I makes a speciality of the proposal of geographical culture and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography when it comes to its highbrow, visible and textual representations; while half II explores geographical imaginations; that's to claim, these 'imagined geographies' that got here into being due to daily spatial and non secular event. Bringing jointly methods from paintings, literary reports, highbrow heritage and ancient geography, this pioneering quantity could be crucial examining for students eager about visible and textual modes of geographical illustration and transmission, in addition to the areas and areas of data construction and intake.
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Connections between place and identity, particularly liminality and marginality in the medieval world, have attracted attention among medievalists interested in questions of race, gender and ethnicity. 46 The answer, she explains, lies not in a straightforward mapping of oppositional binaries of ‘inside and outside’ onto ‘centre and edge’, but in what she calls ‘geographic alterity’; that is, the mediated and contingent nature of place(s) in the geographical imagination. 47 This mapping deals again with biography – an account of a Christian boy in the city allegedly killed by a Jewish family – and just as Birkholz’s ‘analysis of the “life-map” of Roger de Breynton leads to the destabilization of “lay/clerical, financial/ spiritual, civic/ecclesiastical, local/universal”’ binaries, so Lavezzo’s ‘close analysis of Thomas of Monmouth’s imagined geography of Norwich, England and the Christian West offers a means of problematizing the 46 47 Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World.
22–3). The poem of Dionysius found use as an educational tool almost immediately: it was twice translated into Latin during antiquity, once by Rufus Festus Avienus in the fourth century and again by Priscian in the sixth (see Geographi Graeci Minores, ed. K. Müller (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1855–61), ii, xxix–xxxii), and it remained known in the original Greek as late as the twelfth century. Less is known about the early use of Mela’s text, although it seems probable that it was devised for educational use: see the differing views of A.
1. Also: Προκειμένου δ’ ἐν τῷ παρόντι καταγράψαι τὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶς οἰκουμένην σύμμετρον ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα τῇ κατ’ ἀλήθειαν. Ptolemy, Geog. 2. Ptolemy, Geog. 1. 1) and indications within the text allow us to suggest that Marinos was writing between 107 and 115 ce; see H. Cancik and H. ), Brill’s New Pauly (Leiden: Brill, 2002–). Ptolemy, Geog. 1. See Aristotle, Meteor. 5. Strabo (The Geography of Strabo in 8 vols. ed. and trans. H. L. : Harvard University Press, 1917–32)). ii–iv provides a summary of the different theories put forth by his predecessors, including Eratosthenes, Posidonius, Hipparchus and Polybius.