Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16663-9
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Technology and Change in History

In scope, this book matches 'The History of Cartography', vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millenium and a half of the Christian era.
Contributors are Emily Albu, Raymond Clemens, Lucy Donkin, Evelyn Edson, Tom Elliott, Patrick Gauthier Dalché, Benjamin Kedar, Maja Kominko, Natalia Lozovsky, Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith, Camille Serchuk, Richard Talbert, and Jennifer Trimble.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbert, Richard J A

Weitere Mitwirkende

Talbert, Richard J.A.

Unger, Richard W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger

Greek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, Richard Talbert

L’Heritage antique de la Cartographie Medievale: les Problemes et les Acquis, Patrick Gautier Dalche

Process and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, Jennifer Trimble

Contructing a Digital Edition for the Peutingen Map, Tom Elliott

Rethinking the Peutinger Map, Emily Albu

The Book of Curiosities and a Unique Map of the World, Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith

New Perspectives on Paradise: The Levels of Reality in Byzantine and Latin Medieval Maps, Maja Komink

Raski’s Map of the Land of Canaan, ca. 1100, and Its Cartographic Background, Benjamin Z. Kedar

Maps and Panegyrics: Roman Geo-Ethnographical Rhetoric in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Natalia Lozovsky

”Usque ad Ultimum Terrae”: Mapping the Ends of the Earth in Two Medieval Floor Mosaics, Lucy E.G. Donkin

Maps in Context: Isidore, Orosius, and the Medieval Image of the World, Evelyn Edson

Medieval Maps in Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Raymond Edson

Cartes et Chroniques: Mapping and History in Late Medieval France, Camille Serchuk

Bibliography

Index
Colour Plates

Über Autor(innen)

Richard J.A. Talbert, Ph.D. (1972) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Kenan Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many-sided engagement with the Roman Empire embraces administration, mapping, travel, and worldview.

Richard W. Unger, Ph. D.(1971) in Economic History, Yale University, is Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on the history of shipping and beer production and consumption in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.