Cartographic Humanism
Cartographic Humanism Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.What is "Europe," and when did it come…
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Cartographic Humanism
Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? But as Katharina N. In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely.
As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers,