“Confused Anarchy and the late civil broils”: The Politics of Genre in Milton’s Histories
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2020 The writing of history was seminal to Milton’s conception of himself as a humanist and is a key to our understanding of his literary career. Yet, Milton’s Brief History of Moscovia and The History of Britain occupy a unique position in the way in which ...
Dasgupta Sukanya
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The chorographic vision: an investigation into the historical and contemporary visual literacy of chorography [PDF]
, 2011 This research spans the origins of chorography in Greek classical cosmographical and geographical philosophies to contemporary interpretation by visual artists.
O'Sullivan, Jill
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1603: Multiple Monarchy and Scottish Identity
History, Volume 105, Issue 366, Page 402-421, July 2020., 2020 Abstract Early modern geopolitics were largely driven by dynastic imperatives – births, marriages and deaths among Europe's royal families – and this article approaches the union of 1603 from the perspective of J. H. Elliott's A Europe of Composite Monarchies.
ROGER A. MASON
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Les Méditerranéens et l’Atlantique dans l’Antiquité : géographies et anthropologie
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2014 The study focuses on the period stretching from the archaic Greek age (8th c. BC) to the Antonine dynasty (2nd c.), starting mostly from the Greek and Latin sources.
Jean Peyras
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The chorographic tradition and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish antiquaries [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2011 The early modern phenomenon of British Antiquarianism can be traced to the Renaissance rediscovery of the classical chorographic tradition. While the term ‘chorography’ eventually fell out of use, its influence can still be seen in the works of later ...
Darrell J. Rohl
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Empiries artistiques à propos du lieu
Géographie et Cultures, 2015 Saying that we live somewhere is a tautology, in the sense that the very act of existence hinges upon where we are. A purely scientific approach to the notion of place seems inadequate for taking into account the totalising hold that places exercise over
Joseph Rabie
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The mirage of the metropolis: city imaging in the age of digital chorography [PDF]
, 2017 Even as cities evolved geographically, the basis of city imaging (as codified by Kevin Lynch) remained relatively stable for over half a century.
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The Joyous Entry of Albert and Isabella in Lille: History, Conquest and the Making of Belgium
Royal Studies Journal, 2016 This article investigates the planned festivities for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Eugenia, joint sovereigns of the Low Countries since 1598, when they entered their city of Lille in 1600.
Ellen Wurtzel
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‘Confluence of Costume, Cartography and Early Modern European Chorography’ [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2013 Chorography appeared in early modern Europe as a broad strategy for world knowledge-seeking that gestured not only to physical descriptions of place, but combined for the first time in formal discourse, maps, costume descriptions, histories, chronologies
Michelle Moseley-Christian
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La Descrittione di tutta Italia di Leandro Alberti e il Theatrum Orbis Terrarum di Abraham Ortelius
Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2014 Leandro Alberti’s Descrittione di tutta Italia and Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis TerrarumIn her essay on the Italian sources informing Abraham Ortelius’ pioneering Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Silvia Gaiga first demonstrates the enduring international ...
Silvia Gaiga
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