Alfred Hiatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Hiatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiatt |
| SIGNATURE | HIATT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2060-8332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entanglements
Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima and the Maps of al-Idrīsī
It has long been noted that in compiling a geographical preface to his famous Muqaddima, Ibn Khaldūn relied on the maps contained in the twelfth-century geographer al-Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq. Yet Ibn Khaldūn’s reading of nearly seventy regional maps of al-Idrīsī has not to date been the subject of a detailed examination. This article seeks, first, to establish patterns in Ibn Khaldūn’s map reading as recorded in the Muqaddi…
The Medieval and Early Humanist Reception of the Antonine Itinerary
The Antonine Itinerary, a late antique compilation of 256 land routes and seven maritime itineraries through the Roman Empire, is among the most important geographical texts to survive the ancient world. This article presents the first sustained account of its reception history to the end of the fifteenth century. After an introduction to the text itself, I consider evidence for the Itinerary’s manuscript transmission from the seventh to the fift…
Mappae mundi
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius
This article traces the reception of the description of the known world that opens Paulus Orosius’ Historiae, from its wide circulation in the early Middle Ages to its marginalization by first-generation humanists in the fourteenth century. Particular attention is given to two roughly contemporaneous translations of the Historiae—the Old English Orosius, and the Arabic Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh—which reworked and supplemented Orosius’ geography in innova…
Framing the World
Journal Article Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought Get access Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought, by Margaret Small (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 263. £75). Alfred Hiatt Alfred Hiatt Queen Mary, University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, c…
The Donation of Constantine in John Whethamstede's Granarium
This article analyses the discussion of the Donation of Constantine contained in the Granarium, an encyclopedia compiled by the abbot of St. Albans, John Whethamstede, in the 1430s. Particular attention is given to Whethamstede's list of reasons to doubt the veracity of the Donation, which differ in certain ways from the contemporaneous and better known criticisms of the Donation made by Nicolas of Cusa, Lorenzo Valla and Reginald Pecock. The art…
Eingegangene Bücher
The Map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808
This article provides a detailed description and analysis of the map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808, in its manuscript context and in comparison with the Gough map of Britain. It is argued that the map in MS Harley 1808, which can be dated to between 1422 and c.1450, was almost certainly copied in York. Detailed consideration of it in its manuscript context shows that it could be read as a support to the narrative of British histor…
An Anglo-Saxon World View? The Cotton mappa mundi Reassessed
This article examines the sources, content, and function of the eleventh-century Cotton mappa mundi (also known as the “Tiberius” or “Anglo-Saxon” world map). It argues against the notion that the map represents a characteristically Anglo-Saxon view of the world, instead positing an understanding of it as an English adaptation of an image with currency throughout the Latin West, in which the places and peoples represented in the north and northwe…
Scribes of Space
Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science. By Matthew Boyd Goldie.." Imago Mundi, 72(1), pp. 73–74
Marcia Kupfer. Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
It has long been thought that the largest extant medieval world map, the Hereford mappa mundi, contains a monumental error. The map, which was produced around 1300, is oriented to the east and tripartite, with Asia in the top half, Europe occupying the lower left portion, and Africa the lower right. However, prominent gold letters on the map label Europe “AFFRICA,” and Africa “EUROPA.” The standard explanation for this reversal is that at a late …
Antipodes
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent. By Avan Judd Stallard." Imago Mundi, 70(1), pp. 139–140
From Pliny to Brexit
Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, C…
Mapping Medieval Geographies
In several ways the thirteen essays in Mapping Medieval Geographies consolidate a new orthodoxy in the study of medieval maps, one that for Anglophone scholarship has its roots in David Woodward’s
The Oxford Map Companion
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury, John L…
Maps and Margins
This article examines the relation between maps and margins in medieval English literature. The concept of the margin is relevant to medieval maps and mapping in two ways. First, it was literally in the margins of manuscripts that maps first appeared in the Middle Ages, and second, the literal meaning of the Latin margo had, in classical and medieval formulations, topographical/cartographical applications. This article describes what was shown at…
The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages
Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English.
The Hereford World Map
The Hereford World Map: Mappa Mundi. The Hereford World Map: Introduction. By P. D. A. Harvey. The Hereford World Map: A Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary. By Scott D. Westrem.." Imago Mundi, 63(2), pp. 231–232
The 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography Poster Session
Beowulf off the map
This essay uses maps that have illustrated Beowulf since Klaeber's edition as a starting point for an exploration of spatial representation in the poem. It is argued that modern maps do not offer particularly useful tools for understanding the poem, and that ‘chorography’, that is, the description of regional space, may be a more accurate term for analysis of Beowulf than ‘geography’. The poem presents a topography intimately connected to the int…
Ultima Thulé
Monique Mund-Dopchie. Ultima Thulé: Histoire d'un lieu et genèse d'un mythe. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire 449. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 494 pp. index. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–2–600–01234–8. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Diplomatic Arts
In his 1705 Thesaurus the English antiquarian George Hickes published lengthy criticisms of the approach to forged documents advocated by Jean Mabillon in his seminal De re diplomatica . Mabillon argued against rash rejection of swathes of documents, and emphasized the mixture of genuine and false material in many archives; Hickes alleged that Mabillon's position would allow even rank forgeries to be defended as genuine. The disagreement between …
The Map of Macrobius before 1100
The subject of this article is the tradition of world maps that illustrate Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio in manuscripts produced before 1100. Examination of the maps in manuscript context reveals that the primary purpose of the image was to illustrate the direction of ocean flows, the formation of seas, and the relationship of the known world to unknown but hypothesized regions. The image was not static: it was adapted in several d…
Diplomatic Arts
In his 1705 Thesaurus the English antiquarian George Hickes published lengthy criticisms of the approach to forged documents advocated by Jean Mabillon in his seminal De re diplomatica . Mabillon argued against rash rejection of swathes of documents, and emphasized the mixture of genuine and false material in many archives; Hickes alleged that Mabillon's position would allow even rank forgeries to be defended as genuine. The disagreement between …
The Cartographic Imagination of Thomas Elmham
The Cartographic Imagination of Thomas Elmham
Blank Spaces on the Earth
Marlow, sitting in "the pose of a Buddha" on the Thames, thus cites the unmapped within the map as the starting point of his journey into Africa. Evidently, the blank of the map is here a space onto which various forms of fantasy can be projected—it is imbued with glory, glamour, and "delightful mystery." Its blankness makes it uniform: all blank spaces, whether in South America, Africa, or Australia, look particularly inviting. But apart from fa…
The Map of Macrobius before 1100
The subject of this article is the tradition of world maps that illustrate Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio in manuscripts produced before 1100. Examination of the maps in manuscript context reveals that the primary purpose of the image was to illustrate the direction of ocean flows, the formation of seas, and the relationship of the known world to unknown but hypothesized regions. The image was not static: it was adapted in several d…
The 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography Poster Session
Beowulf off the map
This essay uses maps that have illustrated Beowulf since Klaeber's edition as a starting point for an exploration of spatial representation in the poem. It is argued that modern maps do not offer particularly useful tools for understanding the poem, and that ‘chorography’, that is, the description of regional space, may be a more accurate term for analysis of Beowulf than ‘geography’. The poem presents a topography intimately connected to the int…
Ultima Thulé
Monique Mund-Dopchie. Ultima Thulé: Histoire d'un lieu et genèse d'un mythe. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire 449. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 494 pp. index. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–2–600–01234–8. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Diplomatic Arts
In his 1705 Thesaurus the English antiquarian George Hickes published lengthy criticisms of the approach to forged documents advocated by Jean Mabillon in his seminal De re diplomatica . Mabillon argued against rash rejection of swathes of documents, and emphasized the mixture of genuine and false material in many archives; Hickes alleged that Mabillon's position would allow even rank forgeries to be defended as genuine. The disagreement between …
The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages
Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English.
The Hereford World Map
The Hereford World Map: Mappa Mundi. The Hereford World Map: Introduction. By P. D. A. Harvey. The Hereford World Map: A Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary. By Scott D. Westrem.." Imago Mundi, 63(2), pp. 231–232
Maps and Margins
This article examines the relation between maps and margins in medieval English literature. The concept of the margin is relevant to medieval maps and mapping in two ways. First, it was literally in the margins of manuscripts that maps first appeared in the Middle Ages, and second, the literal meaning of the Latin margo had, in classical and medieval formulations, topographical/cartographical applications. This article describes what was shown at…
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. The major poets of thecentury, John L…
Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, C…
Mapping Medieval Geographies
In several ways the thirteen essays in Mapping Medieval Geographies consolidate a new orthodoxy in the study of medieval maps, one that for Anglophone scholarship has its roots in David Woodward’s
The Oxford Map Companion
From Pliny to Brexit
Antipodes
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent. By Avan Judd Stallard." Imago Mundi, 70(1), pp. 139–140
Marcia Kupfer. Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
It has long been thought that the largest extant medieval world map, the Hereford mappa mundi, contains a monumental error. The map, which was produced around 1300, is oriented to the east and tripartite, with Asia in the top half, Europe occupying the lower left portion, and Africa the lower right. However, prominent gold letters on the map label Europe “AFFRICA,” and Africa “EUROPA.” The standard explanation for this reversal is that at a late …
Scribes of Space
Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science. By Matthew Boyd Goldie.." Imago Mundi, 72(1), pp. 73–74
An Anglo-Saxon World View? The Cotton mappa mundi Reassessed
This article examines the sources, content, and function of the eleventh-century Cotton mappa mundi (also known as the “Tiberius” or “Anglo-Saxon” world map). It argues against the notion that the map represents a characteristically Anglo-Saxon view of the world, instead positing an understanding of it as an English adaptation of an image with currency throughout the Latin West, in which the places and peoples represented in the north and northwe…
Eingegangene Bücher
The Map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808
This article provides a detailed description and analysis of the map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808, in its manuscript context and in comparison with the Gough map of Britain. It is argued that the map in MS Harley 1808, which can be dated to between 1422 and c.1450, was almost certainly copied in York. Detailed consideration of it in its manuscript context shows that it could be read as a support to the narrative of British histor…
Framing the World
Journal Article Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought Get access Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought, by Margaret Small (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020; pp. 263. £75). Alfred Hiatt Alfred Hiatt Queen Mary, University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, c…
The Donation of Constantine in John Whethamstede's Granarium
This article analyses the discussion of the Donation of Constantine contained in the Granarium, an encyclopedia compiled by the abbot of St. Albans, John Whethamstede, in the 1430s. Particular attention is given to Whethamstede's list of reasons to doubt the veracity of the Donation, which differ in certain ways from the contemporaneous and better known criticisms of the Donation made by Nicolas of Cusa, Lorenzo Valla and Reginald Pecock. The art…
Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima and the Maps of al-Idrīsī
It has long been noted that in compiling a geographical preface to his famous Muqaddima, Ibn Khaldūn relied on the maps contained in the twelfth-century geographer al-Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq. Yet Ibn Khaldūn’s reading of nearly seventy regional maps of al-Idrīsī has not to date been the subject of a detailed examination. This article seeks, first, to establish patterns in Ibn Khaldūn’s map reading as recorded in the Muqaddi…
The Medieval and Early Humanist Reception of the Antonine Itinerary
The Antonine Itinerary, a late antique compilation of 256 land routes and seven maritime itineraries through the Roman Empire, is among the most important geographical texts to survive the ancient world. This article presents the first sustained account of its reception history to the end of the fifteenth century. After an introduction to the text itself, I consider evidence for the Itinerary’s manuscript transmission from the seventh to the fift…
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