1st Edition
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500 Fuzzy Geographies
By Natalia Petrovskaia
Copyright 2025
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print. The Imago mundi was translated into most European vernaculars and extracts from it were adapted into vernacular works... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations,Introduction: Starting Out. 'Europes', Hippogriffs, and Mathematics, Part I: An Introduction to the Imago Mundi tradition, Chapter 1. Understanding the World. An Overview of the Imago mundi, Chapter 2. Translating Knowledge. An Introduction to the Imago Mundi Family, Part II. Modes of Reading Geography, Chapter 3. Time. Authority and Archaism, Chapter 4. Space. Geographical Regions as Fuzzy Sets, Chapter 5. Movement. The Hodoeporical Descriptive Technique, Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, Appendices, Bibliography,Manuscripts, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Electronic Resources.
Biography
Natalia I. Petrovskaia holds MA, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Assistant Professor in Celtic at Utrecht University. This book is the result of her recent NWO Veni Project, ‘Defining Europe in Medieval European Geographical Discourse’.
