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Medieval world maps are often seen today as quaint and amusing artefacts that are hopelessly wrong. Evelyn Edson demonstrates that the medieval world view, as expressed in maps, was not simply a matter of physical measurements, but of placing the earth in a philosophical and religious context. Hence many medieval maps show the passage of time and a narrative of human spiritual development including creation, the coming of Christ, and the Last Judgement.
Professor Edson makes clear that modern assumptions concerning maps are of little value, and one cannot assume that the maps were used for the same purpose or had the same meaning as they have today. In fact the differences in structure and content can give us an intriguing view of how medieval makers and readers saw their world.
A wide range of manuscripts are surveyed including works of history (both 'universal histories' and more locally-focused chronicles), Easter and calendar manuscripts, individual maps including such famous wall maps as the Ebstorf Map and the Hereford Mappa Mundi, and lastly maps which were designed to illustrate religious visions.
Download PDF Mapping Time and Space How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World The British Library Studies in Map History 1 Evelyn Edson 9780712345361 Books
"Evelyn Edson invites us to put medieval maps back into their intended context. Too often in past books, medieval maps have been ripped out of their context and lined up one after another in a history of science narrative. In "Mapping Time & Space", Dr. Edson presents the many other diagrams with which maps are regularly found -- letting us view the broader array of medieval schematic diagrams. These diagrams, in turn, teach us more about the maps.
This important book is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of maps."
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Mapping Time and Space How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World The British Library Studies in Map History 1 Evelyn Edson 9780712345361 Books Reviews :
Mapping Time and Space How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World The British Library Studies in Map History 1 Evelyn Edson 9780712345361 Books Reviews
- Evelyn Edson invites us to put medieval maps back into their intended context. Too often in past books, medieval maps have been ripped out of their context and lined up one after another in a history of science narrative. In "Mapping Time Space", Dr. Edson presents the many other diagrams with which maps are regularly found -- letting us view the broader array of medieval schematic diagrams. These diagrams, in turn, teach us more about the maps.
This important book is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of maps. - I'm currently doing a long paper on the cartography of Matthew Paris, and after slogging through "The History of Cartography vol. 1" this was a pleasure to read. Edson's prose is interesting and engaging, and she covers a wide range of sources, ranging from from easter tables to all types of medieval maps, in her quest to show the linkages between time and space in cartography of the Middle Ages. One of the best books I've read on the subject.
