Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Technology and Change
in History
VOLUME 10
Cartography in Antiquity and
the Middle Ages
Fresh Perspectives, New Methods
Edited by
Richard J.A. Talbert and Richard W. Unger
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2008
Cover illustration: Augustus Caesar commissioning a survey of the world, as imagined in the 1280s
by the makers of the Hereford mappa mundi. From a nineteenth century facsimile edition, cour-
tesy of Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, U.K.
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Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages : fresh perspectives, new methods / edited by
Richard J.A. Talbert and Richard W. Unger.
p. cm. — (Technology and change in history ; v. 10)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-16663-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Cartography—History. 2. Early maps.
I. Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947- II. Unger, Richard W. III. Title. IV. Series.
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To the Memory of
John Brian Harley and David Woodward
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Introduction
Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Greek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century
Perspectives
Richard Talbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
L’Héritage Antique de la Cartographie Médiévale:
les Problèmes et les Acquis
Patrick Gautier Dalché . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Process and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of
Rome
Jennifer Trimble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Constructing a Digital Edition for the Peutinger Map
Tom Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Rethinking the Peutinger Map
Emily Albu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Book of Curiosities and a Unique Map of the World
Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
New Perspectives on Paradise—The Levels of Reality in
Byzantine and Latin Medieval Maps
Maja Kominko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Rashi’s Map of the Land of Canaan, ca. 1100, and Its
Cartographic Background
Benjamin Z. Kedar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Maps and Panegyrics: Roman Geo-Ethnographical Rhetoric
in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Natalia Lozovsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
“Usque ad Ultimum Terrae”: Mapping the Ends of the Earth
in Two Medieval Floor Mosaics
Lucy E.G. Donkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Maps in Context: Isidore, Orosius, and the Medieval Image
of the World
Evelyn Edson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Medieval Maps in a Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and
the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Raymond Clemens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Cartes et Chroniques: Mapping and History in Late Medieval
France
Camille Serchuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Colour Plates
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Emily Albu is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of
California, Davis. Her special interests are Late Antiquity, the twelfth
century, and the classical tradition. She is the author of The Normans
in their Histories (Boydell & Brewer, 2001), and “Imperial geography
and the medieval Peutinger map” (Imago Mundi 2005).
Raymond Clemens is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State
University. His research focuses on the archaeology of book and map
production. With Timothy Graham, he is co-author of Introduction to
Manuscript Studies (Cornell, 2007).
Lucy Donkin is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University
College, Oxford. She specializes in perceptions of sacred space dur-
ing the Middle Ages, and has published “Mosaici pavimentali medi-
evali nell’ Italia settentrionale e i loro rapporti con la liturgia”
(AISCOM, Tivoli, 2005).
Evelyn Edson is Professor Emerita of History at Piedmont Virginia
Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia. Her books include
Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed their World
(British Library, 1997), and (with Emilie Savage-Smith), Medieval
Views of the Cosmos: Picturing the Universe in the Christian and Islamic Middle
Ages (Bodleian Library, 2004).
Tom Elliott is Director of the Pleiades Project at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He specializes in Roman history, geog-
raphy and epigraphy, and in humanities computing.
Patrick Gautier Dalché is Directeur de recherche (Centre national
de la recherche scientifique, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des
textes, Paris), and Directeur d’études (École pratique des hautes
études, Sorbonne). He specializes in medieval representations of
space (texts and images), and his many publications include: La
“Descriptio mappe mundi” de Hugues de Saint-Victor (Études Augustini-