A critical companion to English Mappae mundi of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Publication/Creation:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2019

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

A critical companion to English Mappae mundi of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / edited by Dan Terkla and Nick Millea

Series Titles:

Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture,
Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.

Variant Titles:

Mappae mundi

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Additional Author/Creators:

Terkla, Dan, editor
Millea, Nick, editor

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

World maps--History
Cartography--England--History--To 1500
World maps--Early works to 1800
World maps--Religious aspects--History
England--Intellectual life--1066-1485
Earth (Planet)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Earth (Planet)--Miscellanea
Earth (Planet)--Religious aspects

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Where to fix Cadiz? / Daniel Terkla -- Making Manuscripts and Mappae Mundi / Michelle Brown -- Books and Maps: Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury and Geospatial Awareness / Daniel Terkla -- Books and Maps: Anglo-Norman Durham and Geospatial Awareness / Daniel Terkla -- The Munich Map (c. 1130): Description, Meanings and Uses / Nathalie Bouloux -- The Sawley Map (c. 1190) / Alfred Hiatt -- The Vercelli Map (c. 1217) / Asa Simon Mittman -- In the Company of Matthew Paris: Mapping the World at St Albans Abbey / Daniel Connolly -- The Psalter Map (c.1262) / Chet Van Duzer -- The Duchy of Cornwall Map Fragment (c. 1286) / Daniel Terkla -- The Hereford Map (c. 1300) / Marcia Kupfer -- Digital Mapping, Spectral Imaging and Medieval Mappae Mundi / Helen Davies and Gregory Heyworth -- Annotated Bibliography (1987-2018) / Nick Millea.

Summary:

Mappae mundi (maps of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with fantasical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological material. Their production reached its height in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with such well-known examples as the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, and the Vercelli map. This volume provides a comprehensive Companion to the seven most significant English mappae mundi. It begins with a survey of the maps' materials, types, shapes, sources, contents, conventions, idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving on to locate the maps' creation and use in the realms of medieval rhetoric, Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also establishes the shared history of map and book making, and demonstrates how pre-and post-Conquest monastic libraries in Britain fostered and fed their complementary relationship. A chapter is then devoted to each individual map. An annotated bibliography of multilingual resources completes the volume.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxiv, 314 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color); maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936989219102486

ISBN:

1783274220
9781783274222

ISSN:

2045-4902

OCLC Number:

1091846565

Barcode:

010003091070