Papers by Natalia Lozovsky
A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2011
ABSTRACT
Geography and Ethnography, 2009
... who study not only the Middle Ages but also other cultures, such as ancient Rome and China (T... more ... who study not only the Middle Ages but also other cultures, such as ancient Rome and China (Talbert 1990; Brodersen 1995; Dorofeeva ... edu/awmc/ 3 On the role of Augustine's ideas in the development of geographical knowledge, see Lozovsky 2000: 10–14, with bibliography. ...
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The common difficulty of studying pre-modern geographical ideas is that they do not fit into the ... more The common difficulty of studying pre-modern geographical ideas is that they do not fit into the modern Western model of geography and as a result are hard to analyze and even harder to categorize. Indeed, some pre-modern sources concerned with geographical matters give a rather strange impression, if regarded from the standpoint of geography as a modern Western science. Seen from this perspective, they seem to be rather inadequate geographies, the geographies that are somehow not geographical enough.
In the majority of such cases scholars do not explicitly discuss their approach to the sources. The modern perspective, often taken for granted in research, is implicitly present in the way the sources are investigated. However, many pre-modern sources convey geographical knowledge that differs markedly from modern Western geography in a wide range of aspects -- the content, functions, form of presentation of geographical data, selection of this data, the relations of the geographical knowledge to the other domains. As a result, studies of these sources from the modern geographical perspective display a considerable discrepancy between the material investigated and the parameters used for its evaluation. It is the failure to recognize this discrepancy which results in reductive or distorted interpretations of pre-modern geographical sources.
The authors of papers presented within this panel attempt to explore pre-modern geographies in their own context and in their own terms, avoiding, as far as possible, contemporary value judgements and classifications. The panel entitled “Typological Parallels In Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: Non-Geographical Geographies” confronts the cultural traditions that developed in three regions: ancient Rome (Frank Romer), early medieval Europe (Natalia Lozovsky), and Chinese empire (Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Thomas Zimmer and Alexei Volkov).
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In the majority of such cases scholars do not explicitly discuss their approach to the sources. The modern perspective, often taken for granted in research, is implicitly present in the way the sources are investigated. However, many pre-modern sources convey geographical knowledge that differs markedly from modern Western geography in a wide range of aspects -- the content, functions, form of presentation of geographical data, selection of this data, the relations of the geographical knowledge to the other domains. As a result, studies of these sources from the modern geographical perspective display a considerable discrepancy between the material investigated and the parameters used for its evaluation. It is the failure to recognize this discrepancy which results in reductive or distorted interpretations of pre-modern geographical sources.
The authors of papers presented within this panel attempt to explore pre-modern geographies in their own context and in their own terms, avoiding, as far as possible, contemporary value judgements and classifications. The panel entitled “Typological Parallels In Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: Non-Geographical Geographies” confronts the cultural traditions that developed in three regions: ancient Rome (Frank Romer), early medieval Europe (Natalia Lozovsky), and Chinese empire (Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Thomas Zimmer and Alexei Volkov).
Books by Natalia Lozovsky
Book Reviews by Natalia Lozovsky
In the majority of such cases scholars do not explicitly discuss their approach to the sources. The modern perspective, often taken for granted in research, is implicitly present in the way the sources are investigated. However, many pre-modern sources convey geographical knowledge that differs markedly from modern Western geography in a wide range of aspects -- the content, functions, form of presentation of geographical data, selection of this data, the relations of the geographical knowledge to the other domains. As a result, studies of these sources from the modern geographical perspective display a considerable discrepancy between the material investigated and the parameters used for its evaluation. It is the failure to recognize this discrepancy which results in reductive or distorted interpretations of pre-modern geographical sources.
The authors of papers presented within this panel attempt to explore pre-modern geographies in their own context and in their own terms, avoiding, as far as possible, contemporary value judgements and classifications. The panel entitled “Typological Parallels In Pre-Modern Geographical Knowledge: Non-Geographical Geographies” confronts the cultural traditions that developed in three regions: ancient Rome (Frank Romer), early medieval Europe (Natalia Lozovsky), and Chinese empire (Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Thomas Zimmer and Alexei Volkov).