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SUMMARY:Dr Alessandro Scafi: The Location of Nowhere: Paradise on Maps
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alessandro Scafi, Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cult
 ural History, the Warburg Institute will be giving a paper entitled 'The L
 ocation of Nowhere: Paradise on Maps' on 21 November 2007 as part of the M
 odern Languages Seminar Series.  In the modern world, paradise is generall
 y thought of as not being of this world. Nowadays, true paradises are seen
  as paradises lost (to use Proust’s words). For medieval Christians,
  paradise was a place on earth, its geographical location indicated on map
 s. The challenge for the compilers of the maps was to make visible a place
  that was geographically inaccessible and yet real, remote in time and yet
  still relevant as the scene of an essential episode of salvation history.
  Mapping the Garden of Eden presented the ultimate cartographical paradox:
  how to map a place that was on earth but not of earth. The paradoxical no
 tion of the precise location of the earthly paradise was an important comp
 onent of the medieval world view. During the Renaissance, transformations,
  in both theological doctrine and cartographical practice, brought about t
 he decline of the belief in a contemporary paradise and the emergence of n
 ew historical and regional approaches to the mapping of the Garden of Eden
 . The cartography of a paradise lost and past began in the Reformation and
  has blossomed until today.
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