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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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