RESCHEDULED: Maps and Society - 'Gerhard Mercator and "geographia sacra": Biblical mapping during the sixteenth-century image debates’
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- Lecture
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- Maps and Society
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- Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
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- warburg@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8910
THIS SESSION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Dr Danielle Gravon (Director of Exhibitions, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Adjunct Faculty, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN): ‘Gerhard Mercator and geographia sacra: Biblical mapping during the sixteenth-century image debates’
Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Peter Barber (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Philip Jagessar (King’s College London). Meetings in London, when these are physically possible, are generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society.
Meetings are normally held on selected Thursdays at 5.00pm (admission free). All are welcome. The 2022-2023 academic year will see a combination of virtual meetings (via Zoom), and in-person sessions in the Warburg Institute lecture room. Enquiries: c.delano-smith@qmul.ac.uk.
ATTENDANCE FREE ONLINE OR IN PERSON WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
