Terrae Incognitae

期刊简介：Terrae Incognitae is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published for the Society for the History of Discoveries. The aim is to examine the history and impact of geographic exploration and cross-cultural interaction around the globe prior to the modern era. Each issue includes an expansive book review section. Recent articles have ranged from the use of DNA technology to track the movement of chickens and thus populations in pre-historic Oceania to the role of the Order of Christ in furthering 16th-century Portuguese expansion; from the significance of inter-cultural adoption or rejection of clothing for understanding cross-cultural interaction to Marco Polo’s influence on cartography. Terrae Incognitae accepts contributions relating to geographic exploration and its impact from all chronologies before the modern era and relating to any part of the globe. The journal welcomes comparative and interdisciplinary studies as well as those focused on a particular time or place. The origin of geographic discovery and exploration is lost to the mist of time—perhaps when an early hominid went searching for game and discovered another group of humans. Geographic discovery is about more than the moment of discovery, however. It is about theoretical geography put into practice; it is about bankrolling expeditions, whether through the investment of wealthy widows, old age pensions, financiers, or governments; it is about maps and mapmakers; it is about diplomats, missionaries, explorers, scallywags and pirates, naturalists, and merchant-adventurers. Geographic discovery is about people broadening their horizons, encountering one another for the first time, struggling to understand a foreign culture, and braving the unknown in search of a new destiny.

【译文】Terrae Incogniae 是一本为发现史学会出版的跨学科同行评审期刊。目的是研究现代之前全球地理探索和跨文化互动的历史和影响。每期都包含一个广泛的书评部分。最近的文章涵盖了从利用 DNA 技术追踪史前大洋洲鸡群的活动，到基督骑士团在促进 16 世纪葡萄牙扩张中的作用；从跨文化采用或拒绝服装对于理解跨文化互动的重要性，到马可·波罗对地图学的影响。 Terrae Incogniae 接受与地理探索及其影响相关的贡献，这些贡献来自现代之前的所有年表以及与全球任何部分相关的内容。该杂志欢迎比较和跨学科研究以及关注特定时间或地点的研究。地理发现和探索的起源已经消失在时间的迷雾中——也许是在早期原始人类寻找猎物并发现了另一群人类的时候。然而，地理发现不仅仅是发现的时刻。它是将理论地理学付诸实践；它是关于为探险活动提供资金，无论是通过富有的寡妇、养老金、金融家还是政府的投资；它是关于地图和制图者的；它讲述的是外交官、传教士、探险家、恶棍和海盗、博物学家和商业冒险家。地理发现是人们开拓视野、第一次相遇、努力了解异国文化、勇敢面对未知寻找新的命运。