IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1013: Mappings, I: Between Text and Map: Envisioned, Failed, and Foreign Empires

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30

Organisers:	Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
Moderator/Chair:	Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast
Paper 1013-a	Mapping an English Empire in a Manuscript of Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica and Expugnatio Hibernica (Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS 700) (Language: English) Diarmuid Scully, School of History, University College Cork Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought
Paper 1013-b	Placing Kingdoms and Empires: The Differentiation of Space and Arabic Knowledge in 'Transitional Maps' from the First Half of the 14th Century (Language: English) Stefan Schröder, Faculty of Theology / Department of Church History, University of Helsinki Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought
Paper 1013-c	'Situs Brittaniae majoris quae nunc Anglia vocatur': Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy (Language: English) Andrea Worm, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Index terms: Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Abstract	Between Text and Map: Envisioned, Failed and Foreign Empires falls under the 'Mappings' rubric that comprises it and two other sessions in a proposed series that aims to advance studies in the history of cartography. Picking up this year's theme of 'Empire', this session focuses on the representation of imperial ideas, planned, remembered, or contemplated as being beyond cultural borders, in maps and their attendant texts.