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Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille by Daniel Lord Smail (Hardcover, 1999)

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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.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801436260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91860679

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Urban Planning
Author
Daniel Lord Smail
Publication Name
Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, History
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm
Item Weight
28 g

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Daniel Lord Smail

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