Vient de paraître:
Natalia I. Petrovskaia, Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1100-1500. Fuzzy Geographies, Amsterdam University Press, 2025, 208 p.
Présentation:
This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print. The Imago mundi was translated into most European vernaculars, and extracts from it were adapted into works ranging from encyclopedias to literary fiction, verse and prose. This is the first study to examine this tradition as a unified whole. It focuses in particular on the permutations undergone by the depiction of the region designated as ‘Europe’ in the original text and its later adaptations. The book demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the original text and how this enabled the transformation of this spatial description to suit the linguistic, political and cultural needs of its adaptations.
Table des matières:
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Starting Out. ‘Europes’, Hippogriffs, and Mathematics
Europe: What’s in a Name?
Of Space-Time, Borders, and Mathematics
A Roadmap for this Book
Part I An Introduction to the Imago Mundi tradition
1. Understanding the World. An Overview of the Imago mundi
Medieval ‘Encyclopedias’
About the Author and Concerning Context
The Contents of the Imago Mundi
2. Translating Knowledge. An Introduction to the Imago Mundi Family
Vernacular Translations of Imago mundi
Adaptations of Imago mundi i and Insertion of Translated Extracts in Encyclopedic Contexts
Adaptations and Translated Extracts Drawn into Other Genres
Adaptation into Latin
Part II Modes of Reading Geography
3. Time. Authority and Archaism
Authority in Fragments
The Timelessness of Archaism
Overlapping Maps: The Cases of paludes Meotides, Spain, and Rome
4. Space. Geographical Regions as Fuzzy Sets
Divide or Describe? Dirimere, deviser
Regions as Fuzzy Sets
Overlap between Fuzzy Sets in the Image du monde
The Mediterranean as Fuzzy Set
5. Movement. The Hodoeporical Descriptive Technique
Reader, Listener, or Viewer?
Going through the Text
Significant Itinerary Variations in the Latin Text
Local Interest
Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking Back
Looking Ahead
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of Imago Mundi chapters
Appendix 2: Texts of the Imago Mundi Tradition
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Electronic Resources
Index
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Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (20 janvier 2025). Transforming Europe in the Images of the World. Il ne scet rien qui ne va hors. Consulté le 14 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/133ym