Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps : Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period / / Ingrid Baumgärtner; ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe |
Autore | Baumgärtner Ingrid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kalamazoo, MI : , : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 386 p.) |
Disciplina | 912.09 |
Collana | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Medieval |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cartography
Early Modern Culture Medieval Culture Travel Literature |
ISBN | 1-5015-1601-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Queering Classics -- PART I. Gender Construction -- CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought -- CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine -- CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies -- CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature -- PART II. Gender Fluidity -- CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art -- CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe -- CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian -- PART III. Transgender Identity -- CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume -- Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World -- Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts -- Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps -- Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices -- Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land -- Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden -- Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces -- Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land -- Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power -- Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration -- Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases -- Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 -- Index of Toponyms and Locations -- Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples -- Index of Modern Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774619503321 |
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Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps : Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period / / Ingrid Baumgärtner; ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe |
Autore | Baumgärtner Ingrid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kalamazoo, MI : , : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 386 p.) |
Disciplina | 912.09 |
Collana | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Medieval |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cartography
Early Modern Culture Medieval Culture Travel Literature |
ISBN | 1-5015-1601-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Queering Classics -- PART I. Gender Construction -- CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought -- CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine -- CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies -- CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature -- PART II. Gender Fluidity -- CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art -- CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe -- CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian -- PART III. Transgender Identity -- CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume -- Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World -- Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts -- Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps -- Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices -- Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land -- Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden -- Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces -- Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land -- Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power -- Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration -- Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases -- Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 -- Index of Toponyms and Locations -- Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples -- Index of Modern Authors |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996475752003316 |
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Kalamazoo, MI : , : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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