Meg Roland

Mirror of the World

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

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780367560584
• ISBN-10: 0367560585
• Artikelnr.: 67441425

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