Author: Lavezzo, Kathy.
Title: Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534.
Description: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2006. Paperback. 208 pp. Condition : very good. - In a beautifully illustrated book, she argues that the English looked to the globe only to emphasize and, in time, to exalt their own exceptional geographic status. The author charts this process by examining a series of wondrous maps and canonical texts. Demonstrating how medieval geographic notions conditioned English attitudes toward Rome, clarifying the complicated religious history leading up to Henry the Eighth's divorce and the Reformation, Angels on the Edge of the World straddles the subjects--and methods--of literature, history, and cultural geography. It will be of special interest to those readers who use cartography as a way to map cultural identities. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780801473098.

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