Text and Territory
Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
1st Edition
Published on 20. January 1998
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8122-3422-0 (ISBN)
Description
Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.
Reviews / Votes
"A radical, scholarly, surprising, wide-ranging, well-written, and remarkably consistent book. It is also one of the best recent testimonies to and examinations of the rich alterity of the medieval period."-Gillian R. Overing, Wake Forest UniversityMore details
Series
Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 illus.
14 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-3422-0 (9780812234220)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Sylvia Tomasch | Sealy Gilles
Text and Territory
Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
E-Book
11/2016
1st Edition
University of Pennsylvania Press
€220.99
Available for download
Persons
Sylvia Tomasch is Professor of English at Hunter College, in The City University of New York. Sealy Gilles is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University.