Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500

Fuzzy Geographies

AvNatalia Petrovskaia

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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 ranging from encyclopedias to literary fiction, verse and prose. This is the first study to examine this tradition as a unified whole. It focuses in particular on the permutations undergone by the depiction of the region designated as ‘Europe’ in the original text and its later adaptations. The book demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the original text and how this enabled the transformation of this spatial description to suit the linguistic, political and cultural needs of vernacular adaptations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-10
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Knowledge Communities
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041189770

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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’.

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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.