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Book SynopsisMapping Medieval Geographies explores the connections between geography and cartography during the Middle Ages. Drawing from primary sources, the volume will appeal to historians concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.
Trade Review'In Mapping Medieval Geographies Keith D. Lilley has brought together a broad spectrum of scholars to explore both the medieval engagement with geography as a practice and as a subject of inquiry as well as the imagined geographies of those who inhabited the Latin, Greek, and Arabic worlds of the Middle Ages. These essays are unusual in the respect that they show for the alternate geographies of the Middle Ages even while embedding their analyses within contemporary geographical discourse.' Patrick J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
'This volume demonstrates clearly that geographical knowledge includes more than maps projected according to Ptolemaic theory and that medieval geographers working in the tradition of chorography produced work of significance. To limit geography to the Ptolemaic tradition is to miss out on a great deal of geographical knowledge.' James Muldoon, The John Carter Brown Library
'… an interesting and unusual collection of studies … Highly recommended.' G. J. Martin, Choice
'This collection will provide an invaluable gathering of current research, as well as a stimulating and demanding read for the broader range of scholars and students who wish to progress beyond the basic understandings of the 'spatial turn' to a broader understanding of medieval geographies.' Justin Colson, Reviews in History
Table of ContentsIntroduction Keith D. Lilley; Part I. Geographical Traditions: 1. Chorography reconsidered: an alternative approach to the Ptolemaic definition Jesse Simon; 2. Geography and memory in Isidore's Etymologies Andy Merrills; 3. The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St Gall Natalia Lozovsky; 4. The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon Amanda Power; 5. Reflections in the Ebstorf map: cartography, theology and dilectio speculationis Marcia Kupfer; 6. 'After poyetes and astronomyers': English geographical thought and early English print Meg Roland; 7. Displacing Ptolemy? The textual geographies of Ramusio's Navigazioni e Viaggi Margaret Small; Part II. Geographical Imaginations: 8. Gaul undivided: cartography, geography, and identity in France at the time of the Hundred Years War Camille Serchuk; 9. Passion and conflict: medieval Islamic views of the West Karen C. Pinto; 10. Hereford maps, Hereford lives: biography and cartography in an English cathedral city Daniel Birkholz; 11. Shifting geographies of anti-semitism: mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich Kathy Lavezzo; 12. Gardens of Eden and ladders to Heaven: holy mountain geographies in Byzantium Veronica Della Dora; 13. Journeying to the world's end? Imagining the Anglo-Irish frontier in Ramon de Perellós's Pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory Sara V. Torres.
