Natalia Lozovsky is a

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and translator, whose research focuses on science and geography in the medieval period. She has also demonstrated how ninth and tenth century works on geography, often draw on other literary traditions, such as

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. She also writes on how classical knowledge of geography was received by medieval Christian scholarship. She has worked on the lives and writings of

Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville ( la, Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of ...

, Dicuil, Ravenna Cosmographer and

Orosius Paulus Orosius (; born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. It is possible that he was born in '' Bracara Augusta'' (now Braga, Portugal), t ...

, amongst others. In 2011 she was appointed a research associate at the Office for the History of Science and Technology at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. She has an MA from

Moscow University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and a PhD from the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Co ...

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".

Evelyn Edson Evelyn Edson (born November 28, 1940 in Oklahoma City) is an author, medievalist, and professor emerita of history. She is known for her three books on the history of cartography. Biography She graduated in 1962 with a B.A. from Swarthmore College ...

described the work as "valuable contribution to the understanding of the design and function of later mappae mundi".

Selected works

*''"The Earth is Our Book": Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West Ca. 400-1000'' (University of Michigan, 2000) *Lozovsky, Natalia. "Roman geography and ethnography in the Carolingian empire." ''Speculum'' 81.2 (2006): 325-364 *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. *Lozovsky N. Telling a new story of pre-modern geography: Challenges and rewards. ''Dialogues in Human Geography''. 2011;1(2):178-182.

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