Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories argues that forms of literature that were conceived and produced in very different environments and for different purposes in Late Antiquity nevertheless shared an aesthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190221232
• ISBN13: 9780190221232
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"