Text and Territory : Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages /

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 conn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gilles, Sealy, Tomasch, Sylvia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
Temas:
Geography, Medieval.
Géographie médiévale.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Geography, Medieval
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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