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Author Birkholz, Daniel, 1967-

Title The king's two maps : cartography and culture in thirteenth-century England / Daniel Birkholz
Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 22
Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 22.
Contents Ch. 1. Painted chamber Compilatio : Henry III and the cartography of kingship -- ch. 2. Figuring Britain : regnal maps and Matthew Paris -- ch. 3. Of sea monsters, salt, and sovereignty : Edward I and the Gough Map of Britain
Summary This book chronicles the specific technologies, material and epistemological, by which the map - a peculiar artefact, part image and part treatise - shows itself capable of accessing, organizing and reorienting a tremendous range of information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index
Notes English
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Subject Cartography -- England -- History -- To 1500
Cartography -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers.
TRAVEL.
Cartography
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003014638
ISBN 0203505425
9780203505427
9780415967914
0415967910
9786610224098
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9781135884956