VAGNON Emmanuelle, VICTOR Sandrine.
The Albi Mappa Mundi. Geographic Culture and Representation of the World in the Early Middle Ages
Sorbonne
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| N° d'inventaire | 25759 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 288 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791035107864 |
The Albi Mappa Mundi is one of the oldest examples of a representation of the world in the West. Ancient cartography is known only through textual descriptions and later copies. This exceptional cartographic document (inscribed in 2015 on UNESCO's Memory of the World register) does not stand alone: it is preserved in a parchment manuscript, constituting a collection of twenty-two texts, copied and bound together towards the end of the 8th century and preserved since then in the library of the chapter of Albi Cathedral.
Although well-known to specialists and often cited, the Albi Mappa Mundi and the manuscript in which it is found have never been the subject of in-depth research. The articles in this volume propose to approach the study of the manuscript in its medieval environment, opening avenues for future research and highlighting methodological points. This begins with an examination of the historical and intellectual context of the manuscript and the evidence put forward for its dating. It examines the persistence of ancient cartographic models, the material possibilities of their transmission and reception in Albi, and the link between the world map and the texts that accompany it. Comparison with other world maps and other geographical works of the early Middle Ages allows us to better understand the uses of this image of the world in the monastic context of the Albi chapter and, more broadly, the intellectual development of the medieval West at the dawn of the Carolingian Renaissance.
Although well-known to specialists and often cited, the Albi Mappa Mundi and the manuscript in which it is found have never been the subject of in-depth research. The articles in this volume propose to approach the study of the manuscript in its medieval environment, opening avenues for future research and highlighting methodological points. This begins with an examination of the historical and intellectual context of the manuscript and the evidence put forward for its dating. It examines the persistence of ancient cartographic models, the material possibilities of their transmission and reception in Albi, and the link between the world map and the texts that accompany it. Comparison with other world maps and other geographical works of the early Middle Ages allows us to better understand the uses of this image of the world in the monastic context of the Albi chapter and, more broadly, the intellectual development of the medieval West at the dawn of the Carolingian Renaissance.
Although well-known to specialists and often cited, the Albi Mappa Mundi and the manuscript in which it is found have never been the subject of in-depth research. The articles in this volume propose to approach the study of the manuscript in its medieval environment, opening avenues for future research and highlighting methodological points. This begins with an examination of the historical and intellectual context of the manuscript and the evidence put forward for its dating. It examines the persistence of ancient cartographic models, the material possibilities of their transmission and reception in Albi, and the link between the world map and the texts that accompany it. Comparison with other world maps and other geographical works of the early Middle Ages allows us to better understand the uses of this image of the world in the monastic context of the Albi chapter and, more broadly, the intellectual development of the medieval West at the dawn of the Carolingian Renaissance.