History and philosophy of geography: discipline and discourse, 2001 2002

Ryan, James R.

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“…Heffernan, 2003; Livingstone, 2003; Withers, 2006). ‘Just how far back should the history of geography go?’ is a question Ryan (2004: 235) poses in his review of geography’s history. The answer, of course, depends on how such histories of geography are written, and on those who do the writing.…”

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Geography’s medieval history

Lilley

2011

Dialogues in Human Geography

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

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Geography’s medieval history

Lilley

2011

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“…As with any disciplinary history, it also reflects the 'preoccupations' of academic (imagined) communities or, as Robert Mayhew nicely put it, 'republics of letters ' (2010: 250). Both the temporal foreshortening of historiographies of geography and the dramatic narrowing of the temporal spectrum in human geographers' work highlighted by Keith Lilley and others before him (Jones, 2004;Ryan, 2004) are reflexive of such preoccupations. As Jones (2004) observes, predominant focus on Enlightenment geographies in the 1990s, for example, can be read as part of a broader interest in Empire underpinned by a political (postcolonial) agenda.…”

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Is geography the eye of (pre-modern) history? Looking back at and looking through medieval geographies

Dora

2011

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This commentary responds to Lilley's (2011) provocative suggestion to move away from periodizing geography and think instead in terms of spatial perceptions and representations across and within certain spatial and temporal contexts. In particular, it problematizes equations between medieval geographies and western or pre-modern geographies. It does so by situating western medieval geographies side by side other 'pre-modern' histories, and by considering medieval spatial perceptions as an alternative lens for looking at the world and at our discipline.

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Topia:Landscape before Linear Perspective

Dora

2012

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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History and philosophy of geography: discipline and discourse, 2001 2002

Cited by 6 publications

References 58 publications

Geography’s medieval history

Geography’s medieval history

Is geography the eye of (pre-modern) history? Looking back at and looking through medieval geographies

Topia:Landscape before Linear Perspective

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