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Imaginary CartographiesPossession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille\nAuthor(s): Daniel Lord Smail\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801436260, 978-0801436260\nSynopsis\nHow, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their [url] to the fourteenth century, different interest groupsnotaries, royal officials, church officials, artisansdeveloped their own cartographies in accordance with their own so.