The Land Speaks: Cartography, Chorography, and Subversion in Renaissance England

Northern Maps: Re-negotiating Space and Place in the Northern Isles and Norway in the Eighteenth Century

“…46 Chorographical practice and vision were revived during the fifteenth century, referring both to the descriptions of particular regions and visual representations of place through mapping. 47 Chorography, as a description of place, therefore remained separate to chronology, which is the description of time. In the English-speaking world, chorography came to be associated with antiquarian descriptions and reports, but also county or provincial maps.…”

“Treasure Maps: Cartography in the Hands of the Virginia Company and the East India Company, 1600-1625”

“…136 While heraldic symbolism may be a significant sign that companies sought to imprint their authority and legitimacy on the maps, they stand out on the page as external decorations, "made to look marginal, merely decorative, and thus ultimately dispensible", contrary to intrinsic features of the land such as trees, rivers and towns. 461 Their disproportionate size could be read as a sign of their author's desperate need to make the appropriation legitimate. Commenting on large heraldic symbols, Richard Helgerson wrote that "the larger and more elaborate he [the cartographer] makes the signs of sovereignty, the more out of place they seem".…”

Chorography: History, Theory and Potential for Archaeological Research

“…Key figures in this field include Helgerson (1986Helgerson ( , 1992, Mendyck (1986Mendyck ( , 1989, Cormack (1991), Hall (1995), and Withers (1996Withers ( , 1999. Bossing (1999) has explored and considered chorography from a specifically American literary perspective, providing good theoretical discussion and retrospectively assigning several works of American emplaced literature to the tradition, while Pettinaroli (2008) has explored chorography and place-making in the early modern Hispanic world.…”