Text and territory : geographical imagination in the European Middle Ages / edited by Sylvia Tomasch and Sealy Gilles
- Bib ID:
- 213928
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998
- 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0812234227 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 0812216350 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Middle Ages series.
- Summary:
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Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Medieval Geographical Desire / Sylvia Tomasch
- 1. "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita": The Palpability of Purgatorio / Mary Baine Campbell
- 2. Defining the Earth's Center in a Medieval "Multi-Text": Jerusalem in The Book of John Mandeville / Iain Macleod Higgins
- 3. Against Gog and Magog / Scott D. Westrem
- 4. Territorial Interpolations in the Old English Orosius / Sealy Gilles
- 5. Making History English: Cultural Identity and Historical Explanation in William of Malmesbury and Lazamon's Brut / Robert M. Stein
- 6. Too Close for Comfort: Dis-Orienting Chivalry in the Wars of Alexander / Christine Chism
- 7. City Air Makes Men Free and Women Bound / Jo Ann McNamara
- 8. Land-Taking and Text-Making in Medieval Iceland / Margaret Clunies Ross
- 9. Courted in the Country: Woman's Precarious Place in the Troubadours' Lyric Landscape / Gale Sigal.
- 10. Assault from Behind: Sodomy, Foreign Invasion, and Masculine Identity in the Roman d'Eneas / Vincent A. Lankewish
- 11. Judecca, Dante's Satan, and the Dis-placed Jew / Sylvia Tomasch
- 12. The ABC of Ptolemy: Mapping the World with the Alphabet / Kathleen Biddick.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-320) and index.
- Subject:
- Geography, Medieval
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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