Whittington, Karl., Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination

Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Text, Image, Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscrift Illumination)

Introduction: The Body-Worlds of Opicinus de Canistris

1. Opicinus's Cartography: Rethinking Early Portolan Charts
2. Empirical Allegory: Structure, Vision, and Experimentation in Four Drawings
3. Diagramming Everything: Opicinus's Cosmologies
4. Graphic Art: Gender, Sex, and Queer Bodies in Form and Metaphor

Conclusion: Art, Science, Analogy