IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 723: Mappings, III: Borders - Mental and Mapped
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Helen Davies, Department of English, University of Rochester, New York Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
| Paper 723-a | Where Europe Ends: On the Function of Continental Borders on Medieval Word Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 723-b | Termini Europae: Where, When, and How Does 'Our' Continent Feature on Medieval Maps and in Medieval Prophecy? (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 723-c | Harmony Belies Tension: Mapping the Mediterranean from the Other Islamicate Side (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | Europe was conceptualized in various ways by Latin European and Islamic map designers and makers, ways that differed from modern understandings and cartographical projections. The speakers in this session take very different approaches to examining these medieval and modern differences: by exploring the concept of the 'continent' in Latin Europe; the concept of 'Europe' in Latin Europe; and the political reasoning behind Muslim mapmakers' emphasizing certain Mediterranean areas and not others. |