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Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600

Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600 AL-MASĀQ 311 Emilia Mataix University of Southampton, Southampton, UK E.Mataix-Ferrandiz@soton.ac.uk © 2016 Emilia Mataix http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243782 Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600, edited by Keith D. Lilley, 2013, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiii + 333 pp., £69.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107036918 This collection is explicitly a book of two halves. In the first (“geographical traditions”) are chapters on the history of geography; in the second (“geographical imaginations”) are chapters that consider particular instantiations of “spatial sensibility” (11) or geographical knowledge. By and large, it is those chapters – found mainly in the first half – in which attention is paid to the presence and contours of genuinely “geographical” thinking that are the most successful; less successful are those that exploit the metaphorical potential of “mapping”, either to connect conceptually unrelated elements or to describe in terms of geography matters for which the terminology of spatiality would have offered greater analytical purchase. Jesse Simon’s strong opening contribution challenges the assumption that Ptolemy’s dis- tinction between a mathematically-grounded scientific discipline that sought to grasp the entire world (“geography”) and an inferior form of topographical representation with limited, only regional scope (“chorography”) held normative status in Roman antiquity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ 311 Emilia Mataix University of Southampton, Southampton, UK E.Mataix-Ferrandiz@soton.ac.uk © 2016 Emilia Mataix http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243782 Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600, edited by Keith D. Lilley, 2013, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiii + 333 pp., £69.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107036918 This collection is explicitly a book of two halves. In the first (“geographical...
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AL-MASĀQ 311 Emilia Mataix University of Southampton, Southampton, UK E.Mataix-Ferrandiz@soton.ac.uk © 2016 Emilia Mataix http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243782 Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600, edited by Keith D. Lilley, 2013, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiii + 333 pp., £69.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107036918 This collection is explicitly a book of two halves. In the first (“geographical traditions”) are chapters on the history of geography; in the second (“geographical imaginations”) are chapters that consider particular instantiations of “spatial sensibility” (11) or geographical knowledge. By and large, it is those chapters – found mainly in the first half – in which attention is paid to the presence and contours of genuinely “geographical” thinking that are the most successful; less successful are those that exploit the metaphorical potential of “mapping”, either to connect conceptually unrelated elements or to describe in terms of geography matters for which the terminology of spatiality would have offered greater analytical purchase. Jesse Simon’s strong opening contribution challenges the assumption that Ptolemy’s dis- tinction between a mathematically-grounded scientific discipline that sought to grasp the entire world (“geography”) and an inferior form of topographical representation with limited, only regional scope (“chorography”) held normative status in Roman antiquity.

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