Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Andrea Bianco's Three Maps
1. The World View of the Mappamundi in the Thirteenth Century
2. Marine Charts and Sailing Directions
3. Sea Chart and Mappamundi in the Fourteenth Century
4. Merchants, Missionaries, and Travel Writers
5. The Recovery of Ptolemy's Geography
6. Fra Mauro: The Debate on the Map
7. The Persistence of Tradition in Fifteenth-Century World Maps
8. The Transformation of the World Map
Conclusion: The World Map Transformed
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Evelyn Edson recently retired as professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She is the author of Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World.

Reviews

A fine, unusual perspective of world history and cartographic influences. Midwest Book Review Attorneys who study maps either for work or pleasure - and many do - will enjoy Professor Evelyn Edson's The World Map, 1300-1492. -- Henry S. Cohn Federal Lawyer A work of thoughtful design and fascinating narrative. Choice Marvelous book. -- Tom Conley Portolan Edson has re-balanced our view of the later medieval period and in doing hs provided us with the latest scholarship in the field... The book is written in an easily accessible style and is very down to earth. -- Sarah Tyacke Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient This study deserves a wide readership... Magisterial survey. -- Daniel Brownstein Renaissance Quarterly Throughout the work Evelyn Edson has cast her net widely, bringing under scrutiny many players, significant and lesser, who contributed to the making of maps in the two centures leading up to 1500. Her footnoes are extensive. -- Rodney Shirley Imcos Journal The book brings together current scholarship on all of the many maps it features, and the glue that holds it all together is Edson's intellectual breadth and curiosity. -- Naomi Reed Kline Speculum A comprehensive and complex picture of the changing face of medieval geography. With the mastery of a formidable palette of historiographic knowledge and well-reasoned discussions of the sources, The World Map, 1300-1492 will certainly remain an important work to consult for both medieval and early modern scholars for many years to come. -- Ian J. Aebel Terrae Incognitae