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Literary Territories - Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Literary Territories - Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of
literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining
principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage,
to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific
works, Literary Territories argues that forms of literature that
were conceived and produced in very different environments and for
different purposes in Late Antiquity nevertheless shared an
aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited
world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection
and organization of knowledge. This type of "cartographical
thinking" stresses the world of knowledge that is encapsulated in
the literary archive. The archival aesthetic coincided with an
explosion of late antique travel and Christian pilgrimage which in
itself suggests important unifying themes between visual and
textual conceptions of space. Indeed, by the end of Late Antiquity
the geographical mode appears in nearly every type of writing in
multiple Christian languages (Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and
others). The diffusion of cartographical thinking throughout the
real-world oikoumene, now the Christian Roman Empire, was a
fundamental intellectual trajectory of Late Antiquity.
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