... Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . Subject to this license, all rights are reserved. “A Lithic Chorography of England” argues that England’s identity formation might be thought...

...This chapter describes the rediscovery of England between the reign of Elizabeth and the end of the seventeenth century which came with new knowledge about the condition and history of England and other countries. The literature of English chorography, travel, and overseas exploration emphasized...

... into new genres. The humanist cult of Livy sparked off a revival of monumental narrative histories in Latin. These initially focused on cities, nations, rulers, and dynasties, but soon expanded their purview to include novel subjects such as antiquities, historical chorography, and church history...

... characterised geography since the ancient Greeks, with ‘chorography’ being the term employed to define the art of ‘describing the parts of the Earth’. Geography had been taught in British universities since at least the sixteenth century, when students at the University of Oxford were instructed about maps...

...0 24 02 2025 Several distinctive new genres developed or revived in the early seventeenth century evoke particular places: satiric city comedy, ‘country house’ and prospect poetry, and ‘chorography’ or the literary mapping of England. This chapter considers these various kinds of ‘place poetry...

... of the Three Living and Three Dead Orosius Paulus Ovid Publius Naso Petrarch Petrarca Francesco Saturn planet Saxons Trogus Pomponius Valla Lorenzo Enlightment East Ottoman s time space place measurement representation astronomy astrology Aristotle Ptolemy cosmography geography chorography...

...Chorography, a distinctive textual form devoted to describing the history and geography of the land, flourished in England and Wales from the late decades of the sixteenth century into the early decades of the seventeenth century. In this period numerous authors, including William Camden, William...

... place writing and sited projects become moveable maps focused on ‘place-awareness’. The chapter explores ways in which Finlay’s work combines mapping and ecopoetics. It discusses how his work, concerned with chorography, which focuses on small regions and specific locations, entwines language...

..., chorography, masque, tragedy, tragicomedy, religious poetry, epic, the poetry of love and friendship, and a variety of kinds of prose....

...The city portrait, like portraits of human beings, arose in the fifteenth century as a commemorative form combining likeness with symbolism. It came to be associated with a category that the ancient geographer Ptolemy had termed chorography—small-scale terrestrial representation...

... in his native county of Pembrokeshire typical of chorography. ¹⁸² As for Stradling and especially Merrick with respect to Glamorgan, as well as for Thomas ap John in his account of Breconshire, affection for the county was sustained by a keen sense of its representing a long-established...

...Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge. Angus Vine, Oxford University Press (2019). © Angus Vine. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198809708.003.0004 This chapter examines the miscellany’s links with antiquarian compilation and chorography...

...This chapter examines a possible solution to the problems presented by the first chapter. It shows the importance of chorography for both historiographic and political debate. Following an analysis of various chorographic texts, it demonstrates how the same structures appear in Books III and IV...

... chorography chronography cities and towns Geographia Ptolemy Germania illustrata project Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim Nuremberg Schedel Hartmann translations and translating languages Unrest Jacob Wimpfeling Jacob astrology Beat of Bern saint Bern cartography eremitism Gerold of Saxony saint...

... complex and well-preserved frontier works that once defined the boundaries of the Roman empire. In order to address the continuing life of the Wall, this chapter considers the significance of certain places along its line through an approach to its chorography. The aim of this book is to demonstrate...

... of Powis Gordon William genealogist Lichtoun Henry Bishop of Aberdeen Scougal Henry Geography chorography local history Robert Sibbald Alexander Keith Thomas Orem Aberdeen Aberdeenshire The north-eastern fishing town of Peterhead was a very decent place according to Alexander Keith. Keith...

... not abstain from factual digressions on topics other than history proper. This conviction ultimately fostered the development of disciplines such as archeology, philology, and chorography—disciplines that allowed Quattrocento antiquarians to produce historical knowledge not by resorting to abstract...

... by the Venetian empire. antiquities cartography Coppo Pietro Bindoni Augustino borderlands chorography De summa totius orbius De toto orbe Istria administration of Portolano Aquileia Bindoni Francesco da Vavassore Giovanni Ortelius Abraham Pasini Mapheo Ptolemy Sabellico Marcantonio Accademia...

... National Museum of Chinese History National Museum of Chinese Revolution ‘three major museums ’ China Chen R Chorography museums History of China Exhibition Shandong Provincial Museum Yu H Zhao H Huang C temporary exhibitions Zhiqiu W Archaeological Museum of China Institute of Archaeology...

... cultural nationalism democratic education chorography Liber amicorum scientific works Now that Latin has long ceased being an international lingua franca, its relative longevity in East-Central Europe might seem surprising. France had abandoned all official use of Latin...