Mental Maps: The Cognitive Mapping of the Continent as an Object of Research of European History
Schenk, Frithjof Benjamin
Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
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Education, Sciences
Politics
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Spatial concepts such as "Europe", the "West" or the "Mediterranean region" not only define political debate, but also the historiographical discourse. Historical research into mental maps investigates the history of these concepts of the regional division of the world, which vary from culture to culture and over historical time. This article describes the concept of the "cognitive map" or "mental map", which has been borrowed from cognitive psychology, and discusses its heuristic potential for historiography. The article then discusses the "invention" of "Eastern Europe", an example of a particularly intensively discussed topic in this area of research.
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Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
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