Imaginary Cartographies

Name: Imaginary Cartographies
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801436260
Price: 492.94 RON
Availability: InStock

Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

Autor: Daniel Lord Smail

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Cornell University Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

492.94 lei

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate the...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Daniel Lord Smail

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1999

Pagini

280

EAN

9780801436260

ISBN

0801436265

Enbook ID

04706155

Editura

Cornell University Press

Greutate

590

Dimensiuni

237 x 163 x 27

Descriere completă

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In bas strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups -- notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans -- developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring Late medieval and Renaissance urban society, while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Imaginary Cartographies

Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și