Dan Terkla & Nick Millea 
A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries [PDF ebook] 

First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.


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 fantastical, 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 resourcescompletes the volume.


DAN TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University; NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.


Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla, Chet Van Duzer.

Содержание

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