Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.

List of contents

Introduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: 'they say the world's in one of them': The World of the Map / Chapter 2: 'Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize': Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: 'There is none so good lernynge': Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar's Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future

About the author

Patrick J. Murray, PhD, is a researcher specialising in early modern literature. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary interfaces of cartography, literary representation and cultural fashioning in the period 1550-1750.

Summary

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus’s arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Murray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032060262
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206026-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Cartography, map-making & projections, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Cartography, map-making and projections, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599