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.

"a vade mecum for the periods under review. Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty."- G.J. Martin, Choice, 47,1, September 2009."Ce très intéressant volume, écho du 35e Atelier médiéval qui réunit à Vancouver, en octobre 2005, une quinzaine de spécialistes, est dédié à la mémoire des pionniers que furent, pour l’histoire de la cartographie, John Brian Harley et David Woodward, disparus respectivement en 1991 et en 2004. [...] Une abondante bibliographie, un index, quatorze planches en couleurs (sans compter les nombreuses illustrations à l’intérieur de l’ouvrage) font de ce recueil d’articles un instrument de travail indispensable pour les médiévistes intéressés par l’histoire des mentalités et un excellent complément au volume I de l’History of Cartography qui date de 1987, une époque où la numérisation n’avait pas encore révélé toutes ses possibilités."- Germaine Aujac (Université de Toulouse) in: Anabases 12 (2010), p. 263-265.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Richard Talbert and Richard W. UngerGreek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, Richard TalbertL’Heritage antique de la Cartographie Medievale: les Problemes et les Acquis, Patrick Gautier DalcheProcess and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, Jennifer TrimbleContructing a Digital Edition for the Peutingen Map, Tom ElliottRethinking the Peutinger Map, Emily AlbuThe Book of Curiosities and a Unique Map of the World, Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-SmithNew 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. DonkinMaps in Context: Isidore, Orosius, and the Medieval Image of the World, Evelyn EdsonMedieval Maps in Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Raymond EdsonCartes et Chroniques: Mapping and History in Late Medieval France, Camille SerchukBibliographyIndex Colour Plates