A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind is a study about the relationship between geography and power in the ancient Roman world, and most particularly about the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products, including geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs. As Rome broke its political bounds and headed towards empire the whole city became the centre and the Roman world-view changed with it. The Roman state then needed to present to the Roman people an easily-digestible narrative about its imperial ambition and imperial possessions, in a way that went beyond the fact that servitude, enslavement, and misery for many underpinned this expansion. There needed to be a publicly-guided discourse centred around the smoothing out of difference, rather than its obliteration or elimination, and the presentation of many different lifeworlds in a familiar way using geographical information. This marked a way of directing how change could be managed and of reimagining how the world might be and might work at the intersection between selection, knowledge, and insight. Reflection and communication sought to create a communal sense of belonging. If not actually doors, these geographical images were at least windows onto self-identity and otherness, letting light in on a sombre struggle against accidie.
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A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World
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A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World
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ArcheologiaTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents Page
- List of Figures and Tables
- Image Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One: Maps of the Mind
- Chapter Two: Strangers in a Strange Land
- Chapter Three: Rome in Rome
- Chapter Four: A River Without End
- Chapter Five: Staged Designs
- Chapter Six: Landscape and Desire
- Chapter Seven: An Unseen Ruler
- Chapter Eight: Maps of the Body
- Chapter Nine: Moving Away from the Pulsebeat
- Chapter Ten: Slouching Towards Empire
- Appendix
- Bibliography
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