| Online-Ressource |
Verfasst von: | Baumgärtner, Ingrid [VerfasserIn] |
Titel: | Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps |
Titelzusatz: | Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period |
Mitwirkende: | Gneckow, Daniel [HerausgeberIn] |
| Hollenbach, Anna [HerausgeberIn] |
| Landgrebe, Phillip [HerausgeberIn] |
Verf.angabe: | Ingrid Baumgärtner; ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe |
Verlagsort: | Kalamazoo, MI |
Verlag: | Medieval Institute Publications |
E-Jahr: | 2022 |
Jahr: | [2022] |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 386 p.) |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 34 |
Schrift/Sprache: | In English |
Ang. zum Inhalt: | 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 |
ISBN: | 978-1-5015-1601-6 |
Abstract: | 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 accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases. |
URL: | kostenfrei: Verlag ; Verlag: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501516016 |
| Cover: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501516016/original |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : EPUB |
| Erscheint auch als : print |
Sach-SW: | Frühe Neuzeit |
| Kartographie |
| Mittelalter |
| Reiseliteratur |
| HISTORY / Medieval |
K10plus-PPN: | 1806268280 |
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Lokale URL UB: | Zum Volltext |
Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps / Baumgärtner, Ingrid [VerfasserIn]; [2022] (Online-Ressource)