Naslov
Representation of Ragusa/Dubrovnik in 17th-Century Literature and Cartography

Autori
Mlinarić, Dubravka ; Brković, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
ABSTRACTS: 15th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Congress / - Pula, 2012, 4-4

Skup
15th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Congress

Mjesto i datum
Pula, Hrvatska, 30.05.2012. - 02.06.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Dubrovnik; kartografija; književnost; konstrukt prostora
(Dubrovnik; cartography; literature; space construction)

Sažetak
Situated at the Adriatic Sea, a small aristocratic state of the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik has been usually historiographically presented as an area of contacts as well as of separation of the political powers such as the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Spanish Kingdom or the Hapsburg Monarchy. Besides dividing political and strategic interests, this particular area has also been represented as the Mediterranean crossroad in religious (Christians vs. Muslims, Catholics vs. Orthodox) and cultural sense (East vs. West, belonging to the tradition of Slovins vs. non- belonging to this tradition) as well as in communication, trading and diplomacy. Within the theoretical framework of the contemporary paradigm of spatial turn and supposing that the early modern construct of Dubrovnik as a dynamic borderland, was created by various media (sources), this paper aims at analyzing different representations of the Republic of Ragusa in the 17th century cartography and literature. By transmedial analysis of maps made by V. M. Coronelli, P. Du Val, M. Merian and J. Bleau as well as by literary works of I. Gundulić, J. Palmotić and J. Palmotić-Dionorić we hope to enlighten two different perspectives of the construction of space. The first one is the perspective of insiders, oriented to Dubrovnik itself, used by the local literary authors. The other one is from the outsider point of view, mostly used by foreign (Western European) cartographers either of Venetian, French, Netherlands, or German provenances. Furthermore, the construct of Ragusan space was generated through different types of discourses, characteristic both for Western Europe and the Dubrovnik cultural surroundings of the 17th century, implying multiple meanings: historical, political, religious, cultural and ideological.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Demografija, Povijest

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