Charlotta Forss : The old, the new and the unknown : the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
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Charlotta Forss : The old, the new and the unknown : the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

Charlotta Forss (1986-)
The old, the new and the unknown : the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

BoklivArtikelnr: 9789526892900

Geografi och historisk geografi. Häftad utgåva från Stockholm University, 305 sidor, på engelska.

  • Analyserar kontinenter i tidig modern svensk geografi.

  • Utforskar resor till Osmanska riket och Nya Sverige.

  • Häftad utgåva med 305 sidor på engelska.

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Bokförlag: Stockholm University
Omfång: 305 s. | Språk: Engelska

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This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. The investigation explores how an understanding of conceptual categories such as the continents was intertwined with processes of making and presenting knowledge. In this, the study combines approaches from conceptual history with research on knowledge construction and circulation in the early modern world. The thesis shows how geographical frameworks shifted between settings. There was variation in what the continents meant and what roles they could fill. Rather than attribute this flexibility to random variation or mistakes, this thesis interprets flexibility as an integral part of how the world was conceptualized. Religious themes, ideas about societal unities, definitions of old, new and unknown knowledge, as well as practical considerations, were factors that in different way shaped what the continents meant. A scheme of continents – usually consisting of the entities ‘Africa,’ ‘America,’ ‘Asia,’ ‘Europe’ and the polar regions – is a part of descriptions about what the world looks like today. In such descriptions, the continents are often treated as existing outside of history. However, like other concepts, the meaning and significance of these concepts have changed drastically over time and between contexts. This fact is a matter of importance for historians, but equally so for a wider public using geographical categories to understand the world. Concepts such as the continents may describe what the world looks like, yet they can create both boundaries and affiliations far beyond land and sea. Charlotta Forss is a historian at Stockholm University. This is her doctoral thesis.

The old, the new and the unknown : the continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden av Charlotta Forss hittar du under Historisk geografi inom Geografi i huvudkategorin Resor | Lokalhistoria | Geografi.

Johannes Rudbeckius Västerås stiftsbibliotek Vetenskap Historical geography Ottoman Empire colonial America conceptual history history of knowledge

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