Universal Histories and their Geographies
Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20045035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cornelia Dreer (University of Kassel), Keith D Lilley, Keith Lilley (0000-0002-9513-6423, Queen's University Belfast) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 275-302 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Boydell and Brewer Limited (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781787440333.012 |
| OpenAlex | W2781108224 |
| ISBN | 9781787440333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In medieval universal histories there is a long tradition of including geographical as well as historical content about the world. Sometimes this geographical information is solely in textual form, sometimes it is expressed in the form of a world map and sometimes it appears as both. The focus of this essay is one particular English example, the Polychronicon, compiled by Ranulph Higden in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, where, in a number of copies, a map and text are used to present a geographical description of the wider world. This provides an opportunity to look closely at the relationship between visual and textual geographies in Higden's Polychronicon, to explore how connections between them can offer insights into how these universal histories formed a basis for engaging with world geographies
Archaeology · Cartography · Genealogy · Geography · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philippine History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |