Defining ‘Europe’ in Medieval European Geographical Discourse

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Manuscript context workshop paper

At the workshop “Compilations, Collections and the Composite Manuscript in the Middle Ages: Genres on the Move and Networks of Dissemination”, held at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in Venice on 17-18 March 2022, dr. Natalia Petrovskaia presented a paper entitled ‘The Manuscript Context of the Imago mundi and the Question of Genre’.  The presentation introduced the manuscript context of the Imago mundi and discussed the implications of a study of this context forour understanding of the text’s medieval ‘genre’ classification. How did the medieval scribes and readers see this text? A copy of the presentaiton powerpoint may be consulted here or by clicking on the image above.