chorography
May 20th 2008 @ 12:00 am about

deep maps and temporal topographies by Michael Shanks In the seventeenth century this was a term much used to refer to antiquarian studies of topography, place, community, history, memory. Camden’s Brittania (1586) was a classic chorography from the English Renaissance.

With the consolidation of disciplines of space and place in the late eighteenth century, chorography was subsumed under geography and topography.

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