An edition of Dislocations (2020)

Dislocations

maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages

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Dislocations
Alfred Hiatt, Alfred Hiatt
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An edition of Dislocations (2020)

Dislocations

maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages

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"Geography is most obviously understood as the establishment of spatial order to make space comprehensible, navigable, and susceptible to representation. Such representation comes in various forms, such as maps, written descriptions, poems, paintings, and legal documents. This book explores the argument that the representation of space can only fully be understood by reference to elements of disorder and dislocation. Classical geography was filled with lacunae, contradictions, and uncertainties, but also had the capacity for dextrous play; the medieval reception of this unstable geography was thoughtful and creative. Geographies of dislocation are not only experienced historically but also given imaginative expression in artistic movements such as Borgesian fiction. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger--in archives, in memories, in ruins--to be retrieved and reanimated in surprising and revealing ways."--

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English
Pages
347

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Dislocations: maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages
2020, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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Table of Contents

The dislocations of classical geography
Aeneas and Ovid between Troy and Rome
Lucan's geography of dislocation
Mutatio
Migration, nation
Maps and vulgar tongues
Opicinus Dada
Ebstorf in Baroda: the Mappae Mundi of Gulammohammed Sheikh.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-329) and index.

Issued also in electronic format.

Published in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Series
Studies and texts -- 218, Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) -- 218.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.9332
Library of Congress
PN682.G45 H53 2020

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 347 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
347

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44090040M
ISBN 10
0888442181
ISBN 13
9780888442185
OCLC/WorldCat
1121084779

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