Date/Time
Date(s) - 11 Feb 2016
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
302 Barnard Hall, Barnard College
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The Medieval Colloquium at Columbia University invites you to a talk by Professor Robert Rouse (Univ. of British Columbia):
“There Be Dragons: Medieval Spatiality and Ecology Before the Map”
February 11, 2016 at 7pm.
302 Barnard Hall
All welcome. RSVP encouraged, [email protected]
From Professor Rouse:
“The dominant modern technology of the map imposes what one might term a Ptolemaic straightjacket over the geographical imagination. Prior to the revival of Ptolemaic cartography, medieval culture is characterized by a plurality of geographical modes, a fractured lens, a poly-chromatic landscape of possibility and meaning.
This paper seeks to articulate and to explore the central question of my current book project: how did late-medieval England know the world? What were the modes and nature of the geographical representations through which the English constructed, transmitted, and – in large part – invented, their view of the wider world that lay beyond their own personal and cultural orbits? As such I am interested in both the modes of representation and in the content that such representations convey: the how and the what.”