Geography’s medieval history
Keith Lilley
This paper examines the marginal place of ‘medieval geography’ in contemporary geographical scholarship. Over past two decades, geographers' studies subject’s historiography have tended to focus mainly on ‘modern’ and ‘early-modern’ rather than medieval geographies. contrasts with early 20th century when was seen by geographers be part discipline’s long history. Set within context current discussion writing geography’s histories, how geographers, latterly historians, sought characterize represent reveals that subject geography Middle Ages shared same fluidities ambivalences today. The thus helps challenge orthodox views history, argues connections continuities shaped for over millennia cautions us against taking a compartmentalized approach historiographies geography.
Dialogues in human geography