Lauren Beck
University College, Rm 115
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 3K7
Canada
fax: 519-661-4093
email: lbeck2@uwo.ca
Lauren Beck
Doctoral Graduate,
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures,
The University of Western Ontario
Current Research
General Research Interests
Recent Publications
Current Hispanic Baroque Research:
Sixteenth-Century Religious Signs and Symbols Throughout the Lands of Spain
General Research Interests:
History of Cartography, Cultural Representation, Siglo de Oro
Recent Publications:
"Representations of the North by 16th Century Spanish and European Cartographers" (Under Consideration, Sept. 2007)
"Sixteenth-Century Religious Cartographic Signs throughout the Lands of Spain". Imago Mundi (Short Article. Forthcoming, Vol. 60.1, 2008).
"Map, Metaphor and Database: Toward a Methodology for Evaluating a Culture in History". The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. (Forthcoming, Vol. 2, 2008).
"Pieter van der Beke: the Man and the Map". Dutch Crossing (Forthcoming, 31.1, 2007).
"Mercator and the theatrum mundi: The Map as Cosmographic Text in the 16th Century Humanistic Community" SILVA. Revista de estudios de humanismo y de tradición clásica. Num. 4 (2005), p. 7-37.
