Conceptions of Space and Place in Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-1650
Professor E. Dobbs and Professor M. Sortor

HUM/SST 395.01
Spring 2002

Unit I.B:

Class Preparation

Recommended Reading

Suggestions for Research

Class Preparation

 

Reading

Harvey, P.D.A., Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map (London: The British Library, 1996)
Jacob, Christian, "Toward a Cultural History of Cartography," Imago Mundi 48 (1996) 191-97

 

Web Links

Hereford Mappamundi (1260), facsimile

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/226A.html

Hereford Mappamundi (1260), Africa

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/226D.html

T-O map, 12th century Sallust ms.

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/205F.html

Isidore of Seville's tripartite world map, 1472 AD

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/205.html

Zonal World Map, Liber Floridus, Lambert St. Omer, 12th c

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/217A.html

Beatus World Map, St. Sever, 1030 AD

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/207D.html

Anglo-Saxon or Cottonian World Map, 900 AD

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/210.html

Anglo-Saxon or Cottonian World Map, 900 AD, drawing

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/210A.html

Henry of Mainz World Map, ca. 1110 AD

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/215.html

Henry of Mainz World Map, ca. 1110 AD, detail, Middle East

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/215B.html

Psalter Mappamundi, 1225 AD

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/223.html

Ebstorf Mappamundi (reproduction)

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/224A.html

Ebstorf Mappamundi (reproduction), Gog and Magog

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/224B.html

 

Course Web Site

1. Lincoln Cathedral (13th century)
2. Lincoln Cathedral, west front: Expulsion from Eden (12th century)
3. Lincoln Cathedral, west front: Noah's Arc (12th century)
4. Hereford Cathedral (13th century)
5. Hereford Mappa Mundi (13th century) in situ
6. Hereford Mappa Mundi
7. Hereford Mappa Mundi
8. Itinerary Map (Matthew of Paris, mid-13th century)

Images on Hereford Mappa Mundi
9. Augustus
10. Horseman and forester
11. Jerusalem
12. Expulsion from Eden
13. Noah
14. Pelican; sciapod; bactrian camel