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...Grant Parker Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. a Mapping the Mediterranean Grant Parker...

...Daniel Vitkus Duke University Press 2007 a Adventuring Heroes in the Mediterranean: Mapping the Boundaries of Anglo-Islamic Exchange...

...Seth R. Kimmel This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude...

...Katarzyna Lecky This essay shows that small-format cartography of the English Renaissance fostered a geographical imagination that placed nonelites at the heart of the nation's collective identity. Cheap maps, guides, and atlases — a staple of the popular print market — were public forms...

... two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Reference Biographical studies Mapping space Contact cultures Jewish studies Christian saints and professions Family and the everyday The marvelous...

... and of the place of the Holy Land within it becomes a kind of virtual pilgrimage: a form of vicarious wandering that prompts religious contemplation and devotion. The article, which includes discussion of the manuscript’s unique and previously unstudied Jerusalem map, thus reminds us to keep in mind the inadequacy...

... adjacent disciplines. The introduction to the special issue “Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then” maps the prime features of the intellectual landscape concerning intention and literary criticism in Anglo-American and French traditions since the late eighteenth century. It then highlights the losses...

... cockfighting texts (one that promotes the virtues of cockfighting as a sport and another that figures cockfighting as an extension of animal husbandry), the essay maps the range of cultural and behavioral practices that early modern cockfighting discourse makes possible. Located in allegories of the cockfight...

...Julia Reinhard Lupton This essay uses the concept of affordances, borrowed from design theory and environmental psychology, in order to map the use of space in act 1, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet . Hospitality provides a socio-symbolic script for objects and persons in action that crosses theatrical...

... from Camden’s Britannia.22 Speed’s cartographical atlas was innovative, though, because it presented the first completed set of county maps for regions of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.23 While the majority of the sixty-seven illus- trations in Speed’s...

... of the Mediterranean; determining the relevance of its hegemons, empires, cities, and states; measuring change; and distinguishing between maritime history and the histories of societies surrounding the sea.9 My treatment will instead foreground the idea of mapping. It will begin by presenting eight texts...

... of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art. Preface by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Italian Literature and Thought Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. lxiv, 350 pp.; 2 maps, 18 illus. Paper $18.00. [A compilation of writings about the city by Florentine citizens and visi...

... by Martinus Cawley, OCSO. Preface by Barbara Newman. Brepols Medieval Women Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Press, (2003) 2006. xlix, 258 pp.; 1 map. Paper $25.00. Gregory, of Tours. Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians. Translated by Alex- ander Callender Murray. Readings...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Biographical studies 3. Formations of empire, nation, and state 4. Warfare 5. Mapping space 6. Learning and pedagogy 7. Visual culture 8. Narrative structures, lyric effects 456 Journal of Medieval...

... a memorable and repeatable model for identifying geographical information. On the surface, such geographical labels resemble the introductory maps found in modern teaching editions of historical literature in that both identify the geographical settings of the historical texts they accompany. However...

.... xci, 55 pp.; 3 illus., 1 map, 1 genealogy. $73.00. Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de. The Three Figaro Plays. Trans- lated by David Edney. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 32. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1999. 510 pp.; 33 illus. Paper $18.00...

.... lxxiv, 254 pp.; 1 chart. $125.00. Baldwin, Elizabeth, Lawrence M. Clopper, and David Mills, eds. Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the British Library, 2007. ccxxv, 1,231 pp.; 4 maps, 4 illus. $400.00. Bonaventure, Saint...

... for Oral Delivery. Translated by Dick Ringler. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2007. cxiii, 188 pp.; 1 map. $27.95, paper $9.95. [A modern English verse translation, along with trans- lations of “The Fight at Finnsburg,” “A Meditation” (i.e., “The Wanderer and “Deor Anon. Bewnans Ke...