A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Description
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 resources completes the volume.
ISBN
9781783274222
Publication Date
Fall 11-2019
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
City
Rochester, NY
Keywords
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, History of Religion, Medieval History
Disciplines
Medieval Studies
Recommended Citation
Terkla, Dan and Millea, Nick, "A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" (2019). IWU Authors Bookshelf. 107.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bookshelf/107