Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

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What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much more than that? Considering the symbolic nature of islands as a longue durée and through the analysis of maps, texts, and historical accounts, this book explores how the depiction of insularity encodes specific meanings and analytical levels which shed light on medieval and modern worldviews.
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2025
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17 Oct 2024
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978-90-04-71645-2
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Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann, Ph.D. (2021), University of La Laguna, Spain, is a postdoctoral researcher at the same university. He has published numerous articles and books on medieval and early modern maps, medieval travel literature, and cultural history.
This book will be of particular interest to Historians, Historians of Cartography, Art Historians, Cultural Historians, Students, Post-Graduate Students, and other scholars in Humanities.
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