UID:
edocfu_9960752619102883
Format:
1 online resource (XIV, 386 p.)
ISBN:
1-5015-1601-9
Series Statement:
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 34
Content:
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Introduction: Queering Classics --
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PART I. Gender Construction --
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CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought --
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CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine --
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CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies --
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CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature --
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PART II. Gender Fluidity --
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CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art --
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CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe --
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CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses --
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CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian --
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PART III. Transgender Identity --
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CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume --
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Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World --
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Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages --
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Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts --
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Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps --
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Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices --
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Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land --
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Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden --
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Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces --
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Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land --
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Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power --
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Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration --
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Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases --
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Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 --
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Index of Toponyms and Locations --
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Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples --
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Index of Modern Authors
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5015-2381-3
Language:
English
