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dc.contributor.authorRELAÑO, Francescen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T12:10:24Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T12:10:24Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 1997en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5957
dc.descriptionDefence date: 17 October 1997
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. Michael Brett, S.O.A.S. (University of London) ; Prof. Kirti N. Chaudhiri, Supervisor (European University Institute, Florence) ; Prof. Laurence Fontaine (European University Institute, Florence) ; Prof. José Luis Urteaga, Co-supervisor (Universitat de Barcelona)
dc.descriptionPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
dc.descriptionAbstract extracted from the beginning of the introduction.en
dc.description.abstractThe existence of Africa was widely appreciated in southern Europe since Antiquity. Its proximity to the coasts of Greece and Italy on the one hand, and the wide-ranging expansion of the Roman Empire on the other, had indeed revealed the existence of African territories on the other side of the mare nostrum. From the earliest times then, the southern shores of the Mediterranean were easily integrated into the classical ecumene, defined as a mental continuum of inhabitable space not fragmented into continents. No independent idea of Africa could thus arise in Classical Antiquity, nor did it appear in the Middle Ages. As shall be argued throughout this work, it is not until the Renaissance that the idea of Africa finally emerged.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesHECen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/47031
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshCartography -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
dc.subject.lcshAfrica -- Maps -- History
dc.subject.lcshAfrica -- History
dc.subject.lcshAfrica -- Geography
dc.subject.lcshAfrica -- Discovery and exploration
dc.subject.lcshAfrica -- Relations -- Europe
dc.subject.lcshEurope -- Relations -- Africa
dc.titleThe idea of Africa within myth and reality : cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in the late Middle Ages and early modern Europeen
dc.typeThesisen
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dcterms.abstractThe existence of Africa was widely appreciated in southern Europe since Antiquity. Its proximity to the coasts of Greece and Italy on the one hand, and the wide-ranging expansion of the Roman Empire on the other, had indeed revealed the existence of African territories on the other side of the mare nostrum. From the earliest times then, the southern shores of the Mediterranean were easily integrated into the classical ecumene, defined as a mental continuum of inhabitable space not fragmented into continents. No independent idea of Africa could thus arise in Classical Antiquity, nor did it appear in the Middle Ages. As shall be argued throughout this work, it is not until the Renaissance that the idea of Africa finally emerged.en


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