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Cartographic Humanism - The Making of Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Cartographic Humanism - The Making of Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance,
the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki
argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in
the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic
Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined
Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's
formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of
cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography,
philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more
importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite
unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets,
historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization
of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category
that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than
scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented
in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to
chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany,
Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary
dialogue.
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