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• Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts.
  
• Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature.
  
• Contains twelve important images from the period.
  
• Concise introductions and...

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes-the places and people on the other side of the world-from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the...

• Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts.
  
• Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature.
  
• Contains twelve important images from the period.
  
• Concise introductions and...

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes-the places and people on the other side of the world-from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the...