The perception of territory: definitions, descriptions and representations

In 2007 the now traditional meeting, almost in its thirtieth year, organized by the Institute of the History of the Venetian State and Society this spring brings together experts for decades assiduously devoted to research and younger scholars who have already begun a career focused on historical inquiry. This year the seminar topic is the perception of territory, and the attempts to define, describe and represent it. Over a timeline of several centuries various geo-historical areas is considered as delineated and described in terms of self-comprehension and self-connotation, but also in the light of views from outside. All kinds of representations is examined – landscape painting, cartography, land surveys as well as descriptions of various other kinds – administrative, economic, religious, cultural, military and also in some ways anthropological.

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