Book contents
- Mapping Medieval Geographies
- Mapping Medieval Geographies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Geographical traditions
- 1 Chorography reconsidered
- 2 Geography and memory in Isidore’s Etymologies
- 3 The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St Gall
- 4 The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon
- 5 Reflections in the Ebstorf Map
- 6 ‘After poyetes and astronomyers’
- 7 Displacing Ptolemy?
- Part II Geographical imaginations
- Select bibliography
- Index
6 - ‘After poyetes and astronomyers’
English geographical thought and early English print
from Part I - Geographical traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Mapping Medieval Geographies
- Mapping Medieval Geographies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Geographical traditions
- 1 Chorography reconsidered
- 2 Geography and memory in Isidore’s Etymologies
- 3 The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St Gall
- 4 The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon
- 5 Reflections in the Ebstorf Map
- 6 ‘After poyetes and astronomyers’
- 7 Displacing Ptolemy?
- Part II Geographical imaginations
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Mapping Medieval GeographiesGeographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600, pp. 127 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014