Meg Roland

Mirror of the World (eBook, ePUB)

Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000415797
• Artikelnr.: 62050817

Autorenporträt

Meg Roland is currently Dean of Arts, Social Science, and Humanities at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon. She was Professor of English at Concordia University, Portland, Oregon, and previously taught medieval literature and material culture at Marylhurst University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Master Ptolemy:' The Ptolemaic Revival and the Trace of
Ptolemy's Geography in Early English Print Culture 1. Fluid Geographies:
The Confluence of Medieval and Ptolemaic Space in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
2. Cartographic Caxton: Myrrour of the World and Early English Print 3. The
Equipollent Earth-Apple: Mandeville's Travels, the Behaim Globe, and Globes
in Tudor England 4. The Painted World: John Rastell's Stage Globe and
Geographic Pleasure in Early Tudor England 5. 'After Poyetes and
Astronomiers:' The Kalender of Shepherds, and Ptolemaic Geography in
Popular Print Epilogue and Analogue: What the "Poets and Astronomers" of
the Ptolemaic Revival Offer the Spatial Humanities