Geography, royalty and empire: Scotland and the making of Great Britain, 1603–1661

Abstract

This paper explores the ways in which ideas of chorography and theories of empire were drawn upon in the first half of the seventeenth century to sustain notions of Britishness following the 1603 Union of Crowns. In extending our understanding of early modern geography's role in nation building, it considers, too, the representation of geographical knowledges relating to union and empire in two forms: court masques and triumphal processions. These practices, it is argued, should be understood as taking place within particular analytic spaces, namely the court and the street. The representation of geographical knowledge in these ways and in those spaces is seen to be crucial to the ‘making’ not only of the ‘Empire of Great Britain’ but of geography itself as a discursive practice.

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