Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Richard J.A. Talbert, Ph.D. (1972) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Kenan Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many-sided engagement with the Roman Empire embraces administration, mapping, travel, and worldview.
Richard W. Unger, Ph. D.(1971) in Economic History, Yale University, is Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on the history of shipping and beer production and consumption in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

All those interested in the history of maps and map making as well as in the intellectual history of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages.

"a vade mecum for the periods under review. Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty."
G.J. Martin, Choice, 47,1, September 2009

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Acknowledgements

Introduction Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger
Greek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century Perspectives Richard Talbert
L’Heritage antique de la Cartographie Medievale: les Problemes et les Acquis Patrick Gautier Dalche

Process and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome Jennifer Trimble
Contructing a Digital Edition for the Peutingen 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 Komink
Raski’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 Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence Raymond Edson
Cartes et Chroniques: Mapping and History in Late Medieval France Camille Serchuk

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