Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
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Title
Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
Creator
Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date
2008-12-11
Language
en
Type
Book
Zotero
Item Type
Book
ISBN
978-1-4438-0232-1
Abstract Note
The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies workshop, ‘Travel and Cartography from Bede to the Enlightenment’ (August 22-23, 2001) – track a variety of travel narratives from the eighth century to the eighteenth. Their voyages, which extend from from the literal to the spiritual, the political, and the artistic, show how the concept of narrative mapping has changed over time, and how it encompasses cosmogony, geography, chorography, topography, and inventory. Each essay is concerned in some way with the application of the medieval geographical imagination, or with the enduring influence of that imagination upon post-medieval travel and discovery writing.This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate university students and to a broad range of academics across the disciplines of literature and history. It will be of particular interest to medievalists and scholars of the early modern period and to readers of, the new (1997) scholarly journal, Studies in Travel Writing.The volume will also appeal to a more general, informed readership interested in the history of travel and the history of ideas, early contact with indigenous people, and encounters between East and West.
Date
2008-12-11
Language
en
Library Catalog
Google Books
Num Pages
250
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Title
Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
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Citation
Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton, “Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier,” Mondiale Middeleeuwen, accessed April 24, 2025, http://mondialemiddeleeuwen.web.rug.nl/items/show/384.