Text and Territory
Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
336 pages
978-1-5128-0801-8 (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.
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Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 illus.
14 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0801-8 (9781512808018)
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Sylvia Tomasch | Sealy Gilles
Text and Territory
Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
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Text and Territory
Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medieval Geographical Desire
- I. Centers and Margins
- 1. "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita"
- 2. Defining the Earth's Center in a Medieval "Multi-Text"
- 3. Against Gog and Magog
- II. Place and the Politics of Identity
- 4. Territorial Interpolations In The Old English Orosius
- 5. Making History English
- 6. Too Close for Comfort
- III. Gender, Sexuality, Geography
- 7. City Air Makes Men Free and Women Bound
- 8. Land-Taking and Text-Making in Medieval Iceland
- 9. Courted in the Country
- 10. Assault from Behind
- IV. The Territory of Texts
- 11. Judecca, Dante's Satan, and the Dis-placed Jew
- 12. The ABC of Ptolemy
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
