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Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of

General World History

ISBN10: 1032060255
ISBN13: 9781032060255
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 5 2022
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object, whether for enjoyment or political campaigning, colonial invasion or teaching in the classroom. Exploring a wide range of literature, from educational manifestoes to the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare, it suggests that the early modern map was as diverse and various as the rich culture from which it emerged, and was imbued with a whole range of political, social, literary and personal impulses.

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