Apocalyptic Cartography

Chet Van Duzer has held research fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library and Library of Congress, and has published widely on medieval and Renaissance cartography. His book The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers’ Map of 1550 is forthcoming from the British Library.Ilya Dines, Ph.D. (2008), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. He is an expert on manuscript studies, medieval encyclopedism and bestiaries, particularly Third Family bestiaries, and has published extensively in these areas.

“meticulous and well informed … Van Duzer and Dines have brought to light a cartographical corpus worthy indeed of further scholarly investigation.”Alessandro Scafi, The Warburg Institute, University of London. In: Imago Mundi Vol. 69, No. 1 (2017), pp. 119-120.“The book is sturdily and beautifully produced. The authors present their findings with admirable thoroughness and clarity, and with an expansive bibliography. … An exemplary work of scholarship that brings to light engaging new knowledge.”Robert E. Lerner, Northwestern University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 682-683.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1. Description of Huntington HM 83Chapter 2. The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth CenturyChapter 3. The AuthorChapter 4. The Geographical SectionsExcerpts from the Geographical SectionExcerpts from the Section on Astronomy and GeographyLinks with the Rudimentum novitiorumEarly Thematic MappingThe Maps in the Geographical SectionsChapter 5. The Treatise on the ApocalypseLate Fifteenth-Century German ApocalypticismThe Apocalyptic Maps and TextsProof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 HelmstOther Attempts to Map the ApocalypseConclusionsIndex