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The medieval Peutinger map : Imperial Roman revival in a German Empire /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Mapa |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107444997 1107444993 9781316004654 1316004651 |