Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes Before 1600 - Hardcover

Hiatt, Alfred

 
9780712349314: Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes Before 1600
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0712349316 ISBN 13: 9780712349314
Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2008

Synopsis

Until the entire world was mapped, terra incognita was not a metaphor. It existed and was acknowledged to exist. Yet the very acknowledgement of terra incognita raises a problem in the words themselves: without knowledge of it, how can land be represented? This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts and travel narratives. What this book does for the first time is to offer a comprehensive analysis of European traditions of representing unknown land from classical antiquity through to the end of the sixteenth century. This includes examination of a largly neglected aspect of medieval and early modern cartography - zonal or Macrobian maps - but it also includes integration of maps with literary texts and the broader culture in which they were embedded.

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About the Author

Alfred Hiatt is a Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

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Publisher
The British Library Publishing Division
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0712349316
ISBN 13 
9780712349314
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232

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