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In scope, this book matches The History of Cartography , vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millennium and a half of the Christian era.Contributors are Emily Albu, Raymond Clemens, Lucy Donkin, Evelyn Edson, Tom Elliott, Patrick Gauthier Dalché, Benjamin Kedar, Maja Kominko, Natalia Lozovsky, Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith, Camille Serchuk, Richard Talbert, and Jennifer Trimble.
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Technology and Change in History - 10: Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Richard J. A. Talbert, Richard Watson Unger
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- 2008
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- Title
- Technology and Change in History - 10: Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Subtitle
- Fresh Perspectives, New Methods
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 299
- ISBN10
- 9004166637
- ISBN13
- 9789004166639
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Geography & Topography, Science, Europe, Middle Ages, Ancient History, Rome, Cartography
- Description
- In scope, this book matches The History of Cartography , vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millennium and a half of the Christian era.Contributors are Emily Albu, Raymond Clemens, Lucy Donkin, Evelyn Edson, Tom Elliott, Patrick Gauthier Dalché, Benjamin Kedar, Maja Kominko, Natalia Lozovsky, Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith, Camille Serchuk, Richard Talbert, and Jennifer Trimble.