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Seminar: The Premodern Scottish Place: Mapping, Chorography, History, Landscape, Literature


Edinburgh and online, Scotland
Organisation: National Library of Scotland and University of Bristol
This seminar brings together researchers working on the premodern (medieval and early modern) histories of Scottish cartography, chorography, landscape, history, and literature. In a series of presentations, the seminar will discuss some of the following (and similar) questions:
  • what are the roles of the respective disciplines (mapping, chorography, landscape history, and literature) in the understanding of place and space in Scotland?
  • what is the relationship between the premodern visual record (maps) and texts?
  • what is the relationship between the (historical) lived experience of Scottish landscapes and their representations on maps and in other geographical texts and objects?
  • what impact did the literary imagination have on the nascent sciences of mapping and chorography, and vice versa?
Registration is needed.
Venue: National Library of Scotland's Causewayside Building
Language: English
Time schedule: 11.30-16.10 (Brussels)
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