Scale II: Macrospaces

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Association of Place and Space (MAPS)

Organizer Name

Kathy Lavezzo

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Iowa

Presider Name

Catherine Annette Grisé

Presider Affiliation

McMaster Univ.

Paper Title 1

The Place of Maps

Presenter 1 Name

Marcia Kupfer

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 2

The Boundaries of Belief: Geography and Theology in the Navigatio sancti Brendani

Presenter 2 Name

Seth Hunter Koproski

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Cornell Univ.

Paper Title 3

Distant Romance: Making Macrospace through Narrative

Presenter 3 Name

Paul A. Broyles

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Virginia

Paper Title 4

Mapping Micro-Languages in Central Asia

Presenter 4 Name

Karla Mallette

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Start Date

13-5-2016 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1140

Description

This session examines medieval literary, cartographic and visual representations of large-scale locations, such as the known and unknown _oikeumene_ or world, and the premodern universe. It offers new approaches to _mappaemundi_ or world maps as well as planetary and global chorographies.

Kathy Lavezzo