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Exploring Place In The French Of Italy, 1st Edition, Laura Morreale Phd, Heather V. Hill
Exploring Place In The French Of Italy, 1st Edition, Laura Morreale Phd, Heather V. Hill
Fordham Archived Digital Projects
The goal of the site is to map all of the place names mentioned in a selection of medieval French-language works created or copied on the Italian peninsula from roughly 1250 to 1500 and featured on Fordham's French of Italy website.
Mapping place names provides a view of these texts that varies from more traditional approaches, which often focus on close reading or the examination of one particular textual tradition over time. Exploring these texts from a more distant vantage point is a valuable exercise for both literary and historical interpretation – the maps you see displayed here suggest patterns …