The self-made map [[electronic resource] ] : cartographic writing in early modern France / / Tom Conley
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Conley Tom
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| Titolo: |
The self-made map [[electronic resource] ] : cartographic writing in early modern France / / Tom Conley
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 840.9/003 |
| 840.9003 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Cartography - France - History - 16th century |
| Maps in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds: Some Figural Relations with Space; 2. The Letter and the Grid: Geoffroy Tory; 3. Oronce Finé: A Well-Rounded Signature; 4. Words à la Carte: A Rabelaisian Map; 5. An Insular Moment: From Cosmography to Ethnography; 6. An Atlas Evolves: Maurice Bouguereau, Le théâtre françoys; 7. Montaigne: A Political Geography of the Self; 8. La Popelinière and Descartes: Signatures in Perspective; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that ""a new cartographic impulse"" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The self-made map |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8692-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457637903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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