Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages (Anniversary Collection)

By Edited by Sylvia Tomasch & Sealy Gilles

Book Overview

Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography , and Mandeville's Travels , the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216350
• ISBN13: 9780812216356
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"