{"id":6844,"date":"2020-05-20T20:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/event\/fellow-seminar-79\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:16:28","slug":"fellow-seminar-79","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/event\/fellow-seminar-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div align=\"justify\">\nDr. Toni Veneri will present his research proposal on the topic: &quot;Framing the Edges of Europe: Turns in Cartographical Regionalization&quot; on 19 January 2017 (Thursday) at 16:30h at CAS Conference Hall.\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\nAbstract:\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>\nBy undertaking extensive review of atlases and separate maps from 1477 to 1635, my project aims at uncovering patterns of regionalization in early modern European printed cartography. While procedures of subdivision, fragmentation, and classification have been consistently intrinsic to geographical discourse, their reflections on ancient maps cannot always be understood through our current criteria, which we tend to easily apply in a retrospective way. On the one hand, our common habit of reading maps favours, above all features, the graphic visualisation of borders as a reflection of synchronous boundaries of political entities. Indeed, dotted or continuous lines appeared first on early modern and Renaissance maps with a pure geographic meaning (e.g., the Eurasian border), then as &lsquo;markers&#39; of hegemonic cultural spheres, only partially paralleled by political and administrative subdivision, while often referring to different moments in history. On the other hand, our current possibility to freely move between different scales (e.g., Googlemaps) implies an underestimation of some devices that were crucial to the affirmation of modern cartography, like the frames, the particular portions of geographical space, defined by coordinates, into which the known world was cut out for representation. In fact, due to the codification of geographical literary genres and to iterative processes nurturing the print industry, cartographical frames remained a distinctive &#8211; and, I would say, conservative &#8211; feature in an otherwise vertiginously increasing and dynamic production of maps. In this view, the introduction of new frames &#8211; intended to define a specific geographical area &#8211; acquires great significance and warrants attention. To illustrate this point, I will briefly describe an example from my previous research, namely the invention in the early sixteenth century of a cartographical frame to represent the Venetian maritime empire, together with the trade and diplomatic route from Venice to Constantinople.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\nThe presentation will start with an outline of the historical and theoretical framework of the project, meant to highlight the impact of the mathematical procedures introduced by the rediscovery of Ptolemy&#39;s Geographia (the grid). References will be made to the space and place debate, which in the past decades redefined the significance of this impact in the Renaissance, and pointed to the ways through which a new comprehension of geographical space &#8211; understood as quantitative, homogenous and measurable &#8211; gradually empowered cartography both as a scientific field and as a tool in support of emergent techniques of early modern state power.  I will then illustrate my choice of focusing on the Eurasian border for its remoteness from the centres of map publishing, for its fluidity and constant shifting, and eventually as a way to avoid the &lsquo;national&#39; paradigms still persisting in the history of cartography. This border encompassing four different Ptolemaic tabulae, I will have time to detail only the case of the ninth European tabula, the one depicting South Eastern Europe. However, all cases seem to display similar kind of patterns, i.e., the establishment of a norm, given by Ptolemy&#39;s tabulae, which functioned as a gauge for all alternative or departing models. Constantly re-engraved, and made available in a variety of forms, from luxurious to pocket-size publications, the frames of the tabulae were canonized and standardized throughout the sixteenth century. Parallel to these processes of philological consecration (iconisation), the Ptolemaic frames were freely renamed and partially or fully modernized (novae tabulae), within but also outside Ptolemy&#39;s book tradition, therefore significantly shaping the geographical imagination of the time. Incommensurate to the terrestrial stance of Ptolemy&#39;s tabulae, the nautical charts with their maritime focus provided the only true alternative in chorographical mapping, although they would not account for internal areas. Finally, stemming from the Ptolemaic tradition, new frames were attempted by cartographers for a variety of reasons (economic, scientific, political). Resulting from different procedures, such as variations of scale, fusing of different tabulae, shifts in directions, these frames were either abandoned as isolated experiments, or received and followed by other cartographers as new and competitive visual icons.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Toni Veneri will present his research proposal on the topic: &#8220;Framing the Edges of Europe: Turns in Cartographical Regionalization&#8221; on 19 January 2017 (Thursday) at 16:30h at CAS Conference Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}