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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wallace, David,

Titel

Premodern places : Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn

Ort / Verlag

Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Pub.,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2004]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Premodern Places Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1 At Calais Gate; 2 In Flaundres; 3 Dante in Somerset; 4 Genoa; 5 Canaries (The Fortunate Islands); 6 Surinam; Acknowledgments; Index
• This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais - peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam - traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, and t
• English
• Description based on print version record.