What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much more than that? Considering the symbolic nature of islands as a longue durée and through the analysis of maps, texts, and historical accounts, this book explores how the depiction of insularity encodes specific meanings and analytical levels which shed light on medieval and modern worldviews.
Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann, Ph.D. (2021), University of La Laguna, Spain, is a postdoctoral researcher at the same university. He has published numerous articles and books on medieval and early modern maps, medieval travel literature, and cultural history.
