Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Notes on Contributors VII
4. Maps and Travel: An Introduction 1
5. Part I: Historical Space
6. Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch 17
7. The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) 37
8. Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land 74
9. Part II: Use and Reception
10. Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts 91
11. Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia 136
12. Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XV^e siècle 165
13. Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books 189
14. Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces
15. The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World 221
16. Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll 232
17. Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ 252
18. Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) 281
19. Part IV: Word and Images
20. Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits 315
21. Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople 342
22. How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps 363
23. Index of Toponyms and Locations 383
24. Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures 395
25. Index of Modern Authors 403