Through the analysis of maps, texts and historical accounts and by considering the symbolic nature of islands, this book explores how the depiction of insularit

What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much mo

This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This s

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She e

This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawin