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Imaginary Cartographies : Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille / Daniel Lord Smail.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 3 maps, 7 halftones, 16 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781501718090
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 526 .0944 9120902 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Names -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. IMAGINARY CARTOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER ONE. MARSEILLE -- CHAPTER TWO. THE NOTARY AS CARTOGRAPHER -- CHAPTER THREE. SEIGNEURIAL ISLANDS -- CHAPTER FOUR. VERNACULAR CARTOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER FIVE. IDENTITY AND ADDRESS -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX 1: LEXICAL TERMS USED IN THE REGISTER OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF ST. JACQUES DE GALLICIA, BY CATEGORY -- APPENDIX 2: THE PROSOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups—notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans—developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Names -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. IMAGINARY CARTOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER ONE. MARSEILLE -- CHAPTER TWO. THE NOTARY AS CARTOGRAPHER -- CHAPTER THREE. SEIGNEURIAL ISLANDS -- CHAPTER FOUR. VERNACULAR CARTOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER FIVE. IDENTITY AND ADDRESS -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX 1: LEXICAL TERMS USED IN THE REGISTER OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF ST. JACQUES DE GALLICIA, BY CATEGORY -- APPENDIX 2: THE PROSOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX -- Bibliography -- Index

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How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups—notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans—developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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