From Pliny to Brexit: Spatial representation of the British Isles
Alfred Hiatt
This essay explores the representation of British Isles on maps and related geographical texts over course Middle Ages. Emphasizing classical basis for islands, it examines articulations insular identity in debate date Easter as presented Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Gerald Wales’ Topographia Hiberniae, later medieval various genres, including mappaemundi, regional maps, portolan charts. It concludes with brief reflections contemporary crisis manifest 2016 referendum United Kingdom’s membership European Union.
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