Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
Abstract
Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological and thematic contexts. It asks how and why geography was represented here, explaining the influence that the contemporary practice of memorizing knowledge had on the conceptualization of representations of the world.
Keywords
Higden, Ranulph; Polychronicon; Middle Ages; world maps; world chronicleDOI
10.1515/9783111367187ISBN
9783111367187, 9783111326269, 9783111367538, 9783111367187Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2025Grantor
Imprint
De GruyterSeries
KartenRäume / Mapping Worlds, 2Classification
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Historical maps and atlases