Medievalists.net » Cartography http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Atlas Miller http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/07/the-atlas-miller/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/07/the-atlas-miller/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:14:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57436 This gem in the history of cartography is the outcome of the combined efforts of the workshops of the first two 'schools' of Portuguese cartography

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/07/the-atlas-miller/feed/ 0 A 16th century view of North America in the Vallard Atlas http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/22/16th-century-view-north-america-vallard-atlas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/22/16th-century-view-north-america-vallard-atlas/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:02:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55593 The scene above shows the second American map, which is of the East Coast of North America, and is one of the most significant of the Vallard Atlas.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/22/16th-century-view-north-america-vallard-atlas/feed/ 0 The Original Placement of the Hereford Map http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55119 This paper relies on new masonry and dendrochronological evidence and the system of medieval ecclesiastical preferments to argue that this monumental world map was originally exhibited in 1287 next to the first shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe in Hereford Cathedral’s north transept.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/original-placement-hereford-map/feed/ 0 Intellectual Cartographic Spaces: Alfonso X, the Wise and the Foundation of the Studium Generale of Seville http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/intellectual-cartographic-spaces-alfonso-x-wise-foundation-studium-generale-seville/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/intellectual-cartographic-spaces-alfonso-x-wise-foundation-studium-generale-seville/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:10:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53963 This dissertation, "Intellectual Cartographic Spaces: Alfonso X, the Wise and the Foundations of the Studium Generale of Seville," I reevaluate Spain's medieval history, specifically focusing on the role of Alfonso X and his court in the development of institutions of higher education in thirteenth-century Andalusia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/intellectual-cartographic-spaces-alfonso-x-wise-foundation-studium-generale-seville/feed/ 0 Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:18:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52266 For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 A Peripheral Matter?: Oceans in the East in Late-Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:08:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52099 It is something of a truism that the Ocean Sea {mare oceanum in medieval texts and cartography) marked out a real and conceptual periphery for medieval Western Europeans.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/feed/ 0 Seeing again : geometry, cartography and visions in the work of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-C.1354) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/seeing-again-geometry-cartography-and-visions-in-the-work-of-opicinus-de-canistris-1296-c-1354/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/seeing-again-geometry-cartography-and-visions-in-the-work-of-opicinus-de-canistris-1296-c-1354/#comments Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:13:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47435 Set against erratic textual content, the images in the Palatinus are combinations of mathematical forms, collection of figures and zodiac symbols.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/seeing-again-geometry-cartography-and-visions-in-the-work-of-opicinus-de-canistris-1296-c-1354/feed/ 0 Vespucci’s Triangle and the Shape of the World http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:02:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46765 Interdisciplinary interactions between sixteenth-century travellers and cosmographers produced visual models that challenged normative modes of visual thinking, even as they tried to clarify ideas about the earth’s surface.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/vespuccis-triangle-and-the-shape-of-the-world/feed/ 0 The so-called Genoese World Map of 1457: A Stepping Stone Towards Modern Cartography? http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/18/the-so-called-genoese-world-map-of-1457-a-stepping-stone-towards-modern-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/18/the-so-called-genoese-world-map-of-1457-a-stepping-stone-towards-modern-cartography/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 03:22:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41189 Around the time of Christopher Columbus’s birth, we find on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, especially in the north of Italy, a variety of people particularly interested in problems of geography and cartography.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/18/the-so-called-genoese-world-map-of-1457-a-stepping-stone-towards-modern-cartography/feed/ 0 ‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/02/fromm-thennes-faste-he-gan-avysethis-litel-spot-of-erthe-gis-and-the-general-prologue/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/02/fromm-thennes-faste-he-gan-avysethis-litel-spot-of-erthe-gis-and-the-general-prologue/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 05:34:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40902 This paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013.

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