Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps : : Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period / / Ingrid Baumgärtner; ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe.

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 a...

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Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 386 p.)
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546 |a In English. 
505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Notes on Contributors --   |t Introduction: Queering Classics --   |t PART I. Gender Construction --   |t CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought --   |t CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine --   |t CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies --   |t CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature --   |t PART II. Gender Fluidity --   |t CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art --   |t CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe --   |t CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses --   |t CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian --   |t PART III. Transgender Identity --   |t CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital  |t Frontmatter --   |t Preface --   |t Contents --   |t Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume --   |t Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World --   |t Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages --   |t Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts --   |t Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps --   |t Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices --   |t Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land --   |t Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden --   |t Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces --   |t Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land --   |t Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power --   |t Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration --   |t Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases --   |t Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 --   |t Index of Toponyms and Locations --   |t Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples --   |t Index of Modern Authors 
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