The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France
ISBN: 9780816686926
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Cartography -- France -- History -- 16th century; Maps in literature;

In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that a new cartographic impulse during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space.


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