Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe

Author/Creator:

Piechocki, Katharina N. (Katharina Natalia), author

Publication/Creation:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe / Katharina N. Piechocki

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism
Europe--History--1492-1648
Europe--Boundaries--History
Europe--Maps--Early works to 1800
Europe--In literature

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- Gridding Europe's navel : Conrad Celtis's Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera Germanie -- A border studies manifesto : Maciej Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis -- The alpha and the alif : continental ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury -- Syphilitic borders and continents in flux : Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbus gallicus -- Cartographic curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic poetics of Os Lusíadas (1572) -- Conclusion.

Summary:

What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

311 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937001991302486

ISBN:

9780226641188
022664118X

OCLC Number:

1089885449

Other Identifiers:

Unspecified: 40029601305

Barcode:

010003091903