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Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, New York 2016.

Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy’s …

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