Mapping Medieval Geographies MappingMedievalGeographiesexploresthewaysinwhichgeographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the MiddleAges.LeadingscholarsrevealtheconnectionsbetweenIslamic, Christian, biblical and classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of itsintellectual,visualandtextualrepresentations;whilstPartIIexplores geographicalimaginations; thatistosay, those‘imaginedgeographies’ thatcameintobeingasaresultofeverydayspatialandspiritualexperi- ence. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellec- tual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essentialreadingforscholarsconcernedwithvisualandtextualmodes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces andplacesofknowledgecreationandconsumption. keith d. lilley is Reader in Historical Geography at Queen’s University,Belfast. Mapping Medieval Geographies Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600 Edited by Keith D. Lilley UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107036918 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintingintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Mappingmedievalgeographies:geographicalencountersintheLatinwest andbeyond/editedbyKeithD.Lilley. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-1-107-03691-8(Hardback) 1. Geography,Medieval. 2. Geographyinliterature. 3. Cartography–Early worksto1800. I. Lilley,KeithD. G89.M382013 910.9002–dc23 2013011081 ISBN978-1-107-03691-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Dedicated to the memory of Denis E. Cosgrove Contents List of illustrations page ix Acknowledgements xi List of contributors xii Introduction: mapping medieval geographies 1 keith d. lilley Part I Geographicaltraditions 21 1 Chorography reconsidered: an alternative approachto the Ptolemaic definition 23 jesse simon 2 Geography and memory in Isidore’s Etymologies 45 andy merrills 3 The usesofclassical history and geography in medieval St Gall 65 natalia lozovsky 4 The cosmographical imagination ofRogerBacon 83 amanda power 5 Reflectionsin the Ebstorf Map: cartography, theologyand dilectio speculationis 100 marcia kupfer 6 ‘After poyetes and astronomyers’:English geographical thought and early Englishprint 127 meg roland 7 Displacing Ptolemy? The textual geographiesof Ramusio’s Navigazioni e viaggi 152 margaret small vii viii Contents PartII Geographicalimaginations 173 8 Gaul undivided: cartography, geographyand identity in Franceat the time ofthe Hundred Years War 175 camille serchuk 9 Passion and conflict: medievalIslamicviews ofthe West 201 karen c. pinto 10 Hereford maps, Hereford lives:biography and cartography in an Englishcathedral city 225 daniel birkholz 11 Shifting geographiesofantisemitism: mappingJewand Christian in Thomas ofMonmouth’s Lifeand Miracles of StWilliam of Norwich 250 kathy lavezzo 12 Gardens ofEden and ladders to heaven: holy mountain geographiesin Byzantium 271 veronica della dora 13 Journeying to the world’send?Imagining the Anglo-Irish frontier in Ramon de Perellós’sPilgrimage to St Patrick’s Purgatory 300 sara v. torres Select bibliography 325 Index 327