Cartographic Humanism - The Making of Early Modern Europe (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Katharina N Piechocki
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-81681-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS) > Map making & projections Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-226-81681-8
Barcode:	9780226816814

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