Dislocations
Subtitle: maps, classical tradition, and spatial play in the European Middle Ages
By: Alfred Hiatt
Contributors: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Series: Studies and texts -- 218; Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) -- 218.
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780888442185
Subjects: Medieval Literature; History and criticism; Geography in literature; Medieval Geography; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Space in literature; Maps in literature
Description: "Geography is most obviously understood as the establishment of spatial order to make space comprehensible, navigable, and susceptible to representation. Such representation comes in various forms, such as maps, written descriptions, poems, paintings, and legal documents. This book explores the argument that the representation of space can only fully be understood by reference to elements of disorder and dislocation. Classical geography was filled with lacunae, contradictions, and uncertainties, but also had the capacity for dextrous play; the medieval reception of this unstable geography was thoughtful and creative. Geographies of dislocation are not only experienced historically but also given imaginative expression in artistic movements such as Borgesian fiction. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger--in archives, in memories, in ruins--to be retrieved and reanimated in surprising and revealing ways."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-329) and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: The dislocations of classical geography; title: Aeneas and Ovid between Troy and Rome; title: Lucan's geography of dislocation; title: Mutatio; title: Migration, nation; title: Maps and vulgar tongues; title: Opicinus Dada; title: Ebstorf in Baroda: the Mappae Mundi of Gulammohammed Sheikh.