{"title":"The northern world of the Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi","authors":"H. Appleton","doi":"10.1017/S0263675119000061","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi, sometimes known as the Cotton map or Cottoniana, is found on folio 56v of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, which dates from the first half of the eleventh century. This unique survivor from the period presents a detailed image of the inhabited world, centred on the Mediterranean. The map’s distinctive cartography, with its emphasis on islands, seas and urban spaces, reflects an Insular, West Saxon geographic imagination. As Evelyn Edson has observed, the mappa mundi appears to be copy of an earlier, larger map. This article argues that the mappa mundi’s focus on urban space, translatio imperii and Scandinavia is reminiscent of the Old English Orosius, and that it originates from a similar milieu. The mappa mundi’s northern perspective, together with its obvious dependence on and emulation of Carolingian cartography, suggest that its lost exemplar originated in the assertive England of the earlier tenth century.","PeriodicalId":80459,"journal":{"name":"Anglo-Saxon England","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0263675119000061","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Anglo-Saxon England","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675119000061","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi, sometimes known as the Cotton map or Cottoniana, is found on folio 56v of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, which dates from the first half of the eleventh century. This unique survivor from the period presents a detailed image of the inhabited world, centred on the Mediterranean. The map’s distinctive cartography, with its emphasis on islands, seas and urban spaces, reflects an Insular, West Saxon geographic imagination. As Evelyn Edson has observed, the mappa mundi appears to be copy of an earlier, larger map. This article argues that the mappa mundi’s focus on urban space, translatio imperii and Scandinavia is reminiscent of the Old English Orosius, and that it originates from a similar milieu. The mappa mundi’s northern perspective, together with its obvious dependence on and emulation of Carolingian cartography, suggest that its lost exemplar originated in the assertive England of the earlier tenth century.
盎格鲁-撒克逊人绘制的世界地图,又称棉花地图(Cotton map)或棉花地图(Cottoniana),载于伦敦大英图书馆《Cotton Tiberius b.v》第56v页,绘于11世纪上半叶。这一时期独特的幸存者展示了以地中海为中心的有人居住世界的详细图像。这张地图独特的制图方式,强调岛屿、海洋和城市空间,反映了西撒克逊人对岛屿的地理想象。正如伊夫林·埃德森(Evelyn Edson)所观察到的,世界地图似乎是一张更早、更大的地图的副本。本文认为,世界地图对城市空间、帝国翻译和斯堪的纳维亚半岛的关注让人想起古英语的Orosius,它起源于类似的环境。《世界地图》的北方视角,以及它对加洛林王朝制图的明显依赖和模仿,表明它失去的范例起源于10世纪早期自信的英格兰。