The King's Two Maps : Cartography & Culture in Thirteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780415967914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 254 str.

Daniel Birkholz

Opis

While a culture may have a dominant way of mapping, its geography is always plural and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginning with this understanding, this book traces the map's early development into an emblem of the state, and charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon. This book chronicles the specific technologies, both material and epistemological, by which the map shows itself capable of accessing, organizing, and re-orienting a tremendous range of information.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Chapter One Painted Chamber Compilatio Henry III and the Cartography of Kingship; Chapter 2 Chapter Two Figuring Britain; Chapter 3 Chapter Three Of Sea Monsters, Salt, and Sovereignty; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index of Names, Places, and Subjects Mentioned in Text;

O autorze

Daniel Birkholtz is Assistant Professor at Pomona College. His areas of expertise include manuscript culture, Scandinavia and Viking Britain, medieval literature, and medieval London.