Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Fresh Perspectives, New Methods.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger) -- Greek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Richard Talbert) -- L'Héritage Antique de la Cartographie Médiévale: les Problèmes et les Acquis (Patrick Gautier Dalché) -- Process and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome (Jennifer Trimble) -- Constructing a Digital Edition for the Peutinger 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 Kominko) -- Rashi'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 a Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Raymond Clemens) -- Cartes et Chroniques: Mapping and History in Late Medieval France (Camille Serchuk) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Colour Plates.

There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.

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