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

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Birkholtz is Assistant Professor at Pomona College. His areas of expertise include manuscript culture, Scandinavia and Viking Britain, medieval literature, and medieval London. Klappentext First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Tracing the map's early development into an emblem of the state, this text charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon, and chronicles the specific technologies by which the map is capable of accessing, organizing and re-orienting a tremendous range of information. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Birkholz, Birkholz Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2004
• EAN: 9780415967914
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96791-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Europe / Western, CE period up to c 1500, Literature & literary studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Cartography, map-making and projections, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Biography, Literature and Literary studies