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The idea of Africa within myth and reality : cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in the late Middle Ages and early modern Europe
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Florence : European University Institute, 1997
EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
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RELAÑO, Francesc, The idea of Africa within myth and reality : cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in the late Middle Ages and early modern Europe, Florence : European University Institute, 1997, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5957
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The 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.
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Defence date: 17 October 1997
Examining 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)
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Examining 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)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
Abstract extracted from the beginning of the introduction.
First made available in Open Access on 26 June 2017.