Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps : : Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period /

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.

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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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VerfasserIn:
Baumgärtner, Ingrid,
HerausgeberIn:
Gneckow, Daniel,
Hollenbach, Anna,
Landgrebe, Phillip,
Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022]
©2022
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Queering Classics
  • PART I. Gender Construction
  • CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought
  • CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine
  • CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies
  • CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature
  • PART II. Gender Fluidity
  • CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art
  • CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe
  • CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian
  • PART III. Transgender Identity
  • CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume
  • Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World
  • Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages
  • Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts
  • Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps
  • Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices
  • Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land
  • Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden
  • Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces
  • Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land
  • Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power
  • Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration
  • Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases
  • Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600
  • Index of Toponyms and Locations
  • Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples
  • Index of Modern Authors

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