CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Kliuchnik, Alena Ivanauna |
|---|---|
| Title | Western Representations of Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy in the Fifteenth - First Half of the Sixteenth Centuries. A Comparative Approach Using Visual Text Analysis |
| Summary | The study investigates the textual and visual strategies used by different authors while creating images of Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy in the depicted period. The main terminological content of the texts, the main themes and references to the topics of "culture" and "nature" in the descriptions became criteria for the comparative analysis. They were extracted and defined mainly with the help of quantification and computational tools for the basic textual analysis. Thus, it was defined that the most important elements while writing about Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy were references to their political power and political history, religion, urban settlements, local goods, markets, rivers, climate, nature, natural resources, people and other. The preexisting notions for the edges of the continent as well as a number of narrative practices to communicate the motion towards the eastern edges of Europe were observed and described. It was also discussed how the textual narratives influenced the narrative content of the maps. Thus, involving different kinds of textual and visual sources on Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy and applying different methods of textual analysis made it possible to trace some of the image-making strategies typical for western European authors while writing about the depicted area and also to better understand the created images themselves. |
| Supervisor | Gerhard Jaritz |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/kliuchnik_alena.pdf |
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