Literary territories : cartographical thinking in late antiquity
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Literary territories : cartographical thinking in late antiquity
Oxford University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pilgrimage and Archive
- Chapter 2 An Aesthetic of Accumulation
- Chapter 3 Locus Amoenus / Loca Sancta
- Chapter 4 Apostolic Geography
- Chapter 5 The Westwardness of Things
- Conclusion
- Appendix Astrological, Astronomical, Cosmographical, Geographical, and Topographical Texts in Greek, Latin, and Syriac from 0 to 700 CE
- Works Cited
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