Related Books

The Medieval Peutinger Map
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Emily Albu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book challenges the Peutinger Map's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts.
Rome's World
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Richard J. A. Talbert
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the Peutinger Map as a masterpiece both of mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology.
The Medieval Peutinger Map
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Emily Albu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 ancie
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Richard J. A. Talbert
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adap
Ancient Perspectives
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Richard J. A. Talbert
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-14 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—