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Présentation:

What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much more than that? Considering the symbolic nature of islands as a longue durée and through the analysis of maps, texts, and historical accounts, this book explores how the depiction of insularity encodes specific meanings and analytical levels which shed light on medieval and modern worldviews.

Table des matières:

Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures viii
Introduction 2
1 What Is an Island? Concepts, Definitions, and Phenomenology 6
1.1 Islands Surrounded by Water 8
1.2 Island vs Mainland 13
1.3 Floating Islands 17
2 Island and Ocean 20
2.1 Depicting the World in Medieval Europe 21
2.2 Maps, Ocean, and Islands in the Middle Ages 28
2.3 Islands, Ocean(s), and Mythical Traditions 40
3 Islands as Centers, Islands as Limits 48
3.1 Insular Center and Insular Peripheries in Medieval Maps 52
3.2 Towards a Redefinition of the Insular Margins: Periphery and Center in
Early Modern World Maps 62
3.3 Periphery, Insularity, and Identity: The British Isles in the
Medieval Worldview 68
4 Maps of Islands, Islands on Maps 76
4.1 Establishing Islands as a Genre: De insulis and Liber insularum 78
4.2 Mapping Islandness in Venice 83
4.3 The isolario Goes Global 86
5 Conclusions 99
Bibliography 101