Natalia Lozovsky is a medievalist and translator, whose research focuses on science and geography in the medieval period.[1][2][3] She has also demonstrated how ninth and tenth century works on geography, often draw on other literary traditions, such as exegesis.[4] She also writes on how classical knowledge of geography was received by medieval Christian scholarship.[5] She has worked on the lives and writings of Isidore of Seville, Dicuil, Ravenna Cosmographer and Orosius, amongst others.[6][7][8][9][10]
In 2011 she was appointed a research associate at the Office for the History of Science and Technology at University of California, Berkeley.[11] She has an MA from Moscow University and a PhD from the University of Colorado.[11]
Reception
In February 2001, J Francis Watson wrote that "The Earth is Our Book": Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West Ca. 400-1000 broke "new ground in the fields of medieval studies and history of science".[9] Evelyn Edson described the work as "valuable contribution to the understanding of the design and function of later mappae mundi".[12]
Selected works
- "The Earth is Our Book": Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West Ca. 400-1000 (University of Michigan, 2000)[13]
- Lozovsky, Natalia. "Roman geography and ethnography in the Carolingian empire." Speculum 81.2 (2006): 325-364[8]
- Lozovsky, N. (2008). "Maps And Panegyrics: Roman Geo-Ethnographical Rhetoric In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages". In Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.[14]
- Lozovsky N. Telling a new story of pre-modern geography: Challenges and rewards. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2011;1(2):178-182.[15]