The medieval Peutinger map : imperial Roman revival in a German empire / Emily Albu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albu, Emily, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peutinger, Konrad, 1465-1547.

Peutinger, Konrad.

Geography, Ancient--Maps.

Geography, Ancient.

Cartography--History.

Cartography.

Roads, Roman--Maps.

Roads, Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Peutinger Map remains the sole medieval survivor of an imperial world-mapping tradition. It depicts most of the inhabited world as it was known to the ancients, from Britain's southern coastline to the farthest reaches of Alexander's conquests in India, showing rivers, lakes, islands, and mountains while also naming regions and the peoples who once claimed the landscape. Onto this panorama, the mapmaker has plotted the ancient Roman road network, with hundreds of images along the route and distances marked from point to point. This book challenges the artifact's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts of crusade, imperial ambitions, and competition between the German-Roman Empire and the papacy.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of plates; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; The World of the Peutinger Map; The Material Object; A Brief History of the Map; Chapter Two: Roman Roads and Roman Perceptions of Space; The Roads and the Route Network; The Roman Cosmic View; Chapter Three: The Battle of the Maps; The Challenge of the Christian Oikoumene; The Secular Counterpoint: Display Maps of Roman Imperium; Early Christian Mapping; Charlemagne and the Battle of the Maps: The Roads, the Orb, the Maps

A Carolingian Mediator or a Carolingian Prototype?Chapter Four: Christian Maps and the Peutinger Map; Route Maps of Matthew Paris; The Gough Map of Britain; The Peutinger Map and Mappae Mundi; Chapter Five: German Emperors, Crusades, and an Imperial Map; Dating the Medieval Imperial Map; Imperial Claims of Popes and Hohenstaufen; Symbols of Imperium; Tracking the Peutinger Map to Swabian Monasteries; Hohenstaufen Ambitions and the Map's Imperial Design; Chapter Six: Images and the Medieval Map; Imperial Tychai and the Three Personified Cities; Antioch and the Lure of the East

Six Walled and Towered CitiesThe Peloponnese and Mediterranean Islands: Hohenstaufen Ties; Mediterranean Trees in German Forests; The Map in the Longer Twelfth Century; Chapter Seven: Conclusion; Notes; 1. Introduction; 2. Roman Roads and Roman Perceptions of Space; 3. The Battle of the Maps; 4. Christian Maps and the Peutinger Map; 5. German Emperors, Crusades, and an Imperial Map; 6. Images and the Medieval Map; Conclusion; Works Cited; Primary Sources; Secondary Works; Index; Plates

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-99081-0

1-316-01141-0

1-139-98619-8

1-316-00691-3

1-316-01365-0

1-107-63160-2

1-316-00465-1

1-316-00915-7

1-316-00241-1

1-107-44499-3