Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe / Katharina N. Piechocki.
Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe / Katharina N. Piechocki.
Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe / Katharina N. Piechocki.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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G 2020/1337
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English
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311 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Illinois
Date Published
2019.
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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 a...
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Cartographic humanism : the making of early modern Europe / Katharina N. Piechocki.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-296) and index.
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ebook version : 9780226641218
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G 2020/1337
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74VKaDLDZyAg
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9780226641188 hardcover ; alkaline paper
022664118X hardcover ; alkaline paper
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940.2
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991024298217102626
