A Russian discovery in the Arctic ocean at the time of Columbus
In the last decades of the fifteenth century, at least three texts by Italian and German humanists included reports on an Arctic island newly discovered by the Russians. Modern Russian scholarship variously identifies this island as Spitsbergen (meaning a part or even the whole archipelago presently...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/4203 2023-05-15T14:44:33+02:00 A Russian discovery in the Arctic ocean at the time of Columbus Chekin, Leonid S. 2017-10-24 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4203 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4203 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4203/3908 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4203 doi:10.7557/13.4203 Copyright (c) 2017 Leonid S. Chekin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Nordlit; No 39 (2017): Russian Space—Concepts, Practices, Representations; 58–74 Nordlit; Nr 39 (2017): Russian Space—Concepts, Practices, Representations; 58–74 1503-2086 0809-1668 Svalbard Greenland Sami Yugra Conrad Celtis Hieronymus Münzer Pomponio Leto Mauro Orbini info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2017 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4203 2021-08-16T15:55:06Z In the last decades of the fifteenth century, at least three texts by Italian and German humanists included reports on an Arctic island newly discovered by the Russians. Modern Russian scholarship variously identifies this island as Spitsbergen (meaning a part or even the whole archipelago presently named Svalbard) or Novaya Zemlya. This article suggests that the still enigmatic Arctic discovery was largely shaped by theoretical assumptions of late medieval geographers. The rumors about the island closely followed the route through Europe of the famous German scholar and poet Conrad Celtis, and they may go back to one and the same source. A search for this Arctic island in Celtis’s own body of work reveals its description in his poem, Germania generalis, and in one of his erotic geographic elegies, the Amores. It is further argued that Celtis may have left the only cartographic depiction of the island on his Barbara Codonea map, printed as an illustration to the fourth book of the Amores. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Novaya Zemlya sami Svalbard Spitsbergen University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic Arctic Island ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) Arctic Ocean Greenland Svalbard Nordlit 39 |
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In the last decades of the fifteenth century, at least three texts by Italian and German humanists included reports on an Arctic island newly discovered by the Russians. Modern Russian scholarship variously identifies this island as Spitsbergen (meaning a part or even the whole archipelago presently named Svalbard) or Novaya Zemlya. This article suggests that the still enigmatic Arctic discovery was largely shaped by theoretical assumptions of late medieval geographers. The rumors about the island closely followed the route through Europe of the famous German scholar and poet Conrad Celtis, and they may go back to one and the same source. A search for this Arctic island in Celtis’s own body of work reveals its description in his poem, Germania generalis, and in one of his erotic geographic elegies, the Amores. It is further argued that Celtis may have left the only cartographic depiction of the island on his Barbara Codonea map, printed as an illustration to the fourth book of the Amores. |
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A Russian discovery in the Arctic ocean at the time of Columbus |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4203 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4203 |
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Nordlit; No 39 (2017): Russian Space—Concepts, Practices, Representations; 58–74 Nordlit; Nr 39 (2017): Russian Space—Concepts, Practices, Representations; 58–74 1503-2086 0809-1668 |
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