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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 559–591.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern travel narrative Mughal India English trade demography chorography When Fitch does reach the Bengal frontier by land, crossing a largely intractable wilderness, with “many buffes, swine and deere, grasse longer then a man, and very...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., superior this time to Du Bellay’s Anjou, rather than collaborating with
it. Geography is, as in Du Bellay, replaced by chorography, but in Ronsard
chorography is affirmative; there is not the disillusionment that Du Bellay
feels toward his homeland at the end of his Regrets.18 Rather, the Vendômois...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 May 2013
... into a full-scale chorography of an English town. The only clue
Wood may have provided in his almanac to the significance of this par-
ticular journey is marked by an absence rather than a presence: there are no
details indicating how much money Wood spent on this southern route, as
if the journey...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and not the tenants who farm it. The audience of Norden’s pocket
guides, however, is different. Here, the practical nature of the maps and
surrounding descriptions, as well as of the diminutive size of the portable
guides, is undeniable. They have little to do with the mythical chorographies
emphasizing...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
...), and cronografia (a common but corrupted transcription of the geographical science of chorography). 67 The three topics, two geographical and one grammatical, gesture toward the diagram's numerous educational roles in relation to the text. All three categories have encyclopedic qualities, but only chorography...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Studies / 38.3 / 2008
Health and chorography or topography
In the Old World, both travelers and chorographers — to use Ptolemy’s term
for someone who describes the social as well as the physical geography of a
specific area — might report on long-standing views of the healthiness of
a place.11...
Journal Article
“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in great detail in the literature of
urban perambulation or chorography.14 In setting his play in early fifteenth-
century London, Dekker (like Deloney) might be seen to be celebrating the
values of a waning artisanal age. The play’s topography, however, as previous
commentators have noted, more...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 11–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., it is to the eponymization of the human body’s
features in the “age of discovery” that we now turn.
Naming the body
In the Cosmographia (1524) of Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus, 1495 – 1552), the
distinction between geography and chorography (the discipline of regional
description) is held to be akin...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 105–139.
Published: 01 January 2021
... that unites a conception of the world understood in scholarly, mathematical, geometrical terms with a special focus on the detailed chorography of the Holy Land. The purpose of the compendium is to aid understanding of the relationship between the world, the Holy Land, and the literal sense of scripture...
