Historical Atlases

by Goffart, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780226300719
• ISBN10: 0226300714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"--maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene--came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.

Author Biography

Walter Goffart was professor of medieval history at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1999. He now lectures in history at Yale University. He is the author of Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418 584: The Techniques of Accommodation and the prizewinning Narrators of Barbarian History, A.D. 550- 800, among other books.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
System of Citation and Abbreviation	xix
Catalogues and Reference Works	xix
Libraries and Other Map Collections	xxi
Introduction	1	(12)
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Atlases Relevant to History	13	(38)
Claudius Ptolemy and ``Ancient Geography''	13	(7)
The Comparison of Old and New Geography	20	(2)
World Atlases: Vessels of Diffuse History	22	(2)
``One Size Fits All''	24	(3)
Nouvelle metode de geografie historique [sic]	27	(3)
``Ancient Geography, Sacred and Secular''	30	(8)
History Everywhere and Nowhere	38	(1)
Notes	39	(12)
The Middle Ages in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Maps	51	(80)
Bygone Kingdoms	52	(28)
The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy	52	(5)
Where Is Austrasia?	57	(4)
Austrasia Foreshadows Habsburg Austria	61	(5)
The Rest of France	66	(3)
The Empire of Charlemagne	69	(5)
Mementos of a Shifting Province	74	(2)
Southern Netherlanders	76	(4)
Poster Maps: English Battles and Far-Flung French Royalty	80	(6)
Outside Northern Europe	86	(6)
Frisia: Tidal Flats and Historical Cartography	92	(12)
The Foreshadowing of Historical Atlases to 1700	104	(8)
Notes	112	(19)
From 1700, New Departures	131	(56)
Atlases Called ``Historical''	132	(3)
Moving on from Ancient Geography	135	(5)
Innovative but Unrealized Atlases	140	(7)
Atlases Reflecting the Course of Written History	147	(5)
Universal History in Sixty-six Maps	152	(3)
A Disconnected Fragment	155	(1)
The First Fully Published Sequential Atlas	156	(5)
The History of France in Sequential Maps	161	(7)
The Lost Atlas of Johann Christoph Gatterer	168	(6)
Notes	174	(13)
Eighteenth-Century Maps of the Middle Ages	187	(116)
Single Maps and Small Sets	187	(67)
Isolated Scenes	187	(1)
Barbarian Invasions	187	(7)
Carolingian Sidelights	194	(2)
Europe as Seen By . . .	196	(5)
Poster or Catalogue Maps	201	(4)
Divisions and Limits of Medieval Lands	205	(17)
``Outside Europe''	222	(1)
Byzantines, Crusaders	222	(4)
Asiatic Peoples	226	(3)
European Travelers to Asia	229	(2)
Getting It Wrong	231	(8)
Beginnings without Continuations: The History of France	239	(11)
Other Countries at Medieval Moments	250	(4)
Historical Atlases	254	(26)
Delisle's Unrealized Outline of History	254	(2)
The Succession of Great Empires	256	(6)
World Chronicles in Maps	262	(6)
The History of France Graphically Unfolded	268	(4)
A Geography of the Migration Age	272	(2)
Isolated Initiatives: Beaurain, Tomka Szaszky, Andrews	274	(6)
Innovative Atlases and Perplexing Maps	280	(2)
Notes	282	(21)
Historical Atlases Come of Age	303	(76)
The Midas Touch of Emmanuel de Las Cases	303	(11)
Kruse's Europe at 100-Year Intervals	314	(7)
The Historical Atlas Still Unknown and Disavowed	321	(2)
Scholars in a Time of Ferment: C. G. Koch and C. Malte-Brun	323	(4)
Minor Works on the Sequential Plan	327	(2)
Lithography and Other Innovations of the 1820s	329	(1)
Ambitious History from the Weimar Geographical Institute	330	(7)
The Burgeoning of National Atlases	337	(2)
A Creative Burst: 1829--30	339	(4)
Edward Quin: End of an Era in Maps for History	343	(4)
Conservatism and Change in the 1830s	347	(3)
A New Format for Comprehensive Historical Atlases	350	(3)
Karl Spruner's Historisch-geographischer Hand-Atlas (1837--46)	353	(3)
Packing Much in Little	356	(3)
Maps for History Attain Maturity	359	(2)
Notes	361	(18)
Nineteenth-Century Maps of the Middle Ages	379	(64)
An Estrangement Not Yet Healed	379	(4)
A Canon of Maps for Medieval Europe	383	(8)
Medievalia in the Atlas Lesage	391	(3)
Tracks for Crusaders	394	(7)
Medieval and Modern in the Last Sequential Atlases of Universal History	401	(4)
The Middle Ages in Maps of National History	405	(8)
Large Atlases Warmly Welcoming the Middle Ages	413	(5)
Spruner's Hand-Atlas and the Problem of Geographic Order	418	(4)
To Condense so as to Teach	422	(5)
Honorably Mentioned	427	(3)
Notes	430	(13)
Conclusion	443	(20)
Map Types and Written Glosses	443	(8)
Recapitulation	451	(9)
Notes	460	(3)
Catalogue of Maps and Atlases	463	(106)
Historical Atlases and Maps; Atlases with Historical Additions	464	(76)
H, M, G---Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	464	(8)
H, M, G---Eighteenth Century	472	(28)
H, M, G---Nineteenth Century	500	(40)
Ancient and Ecclesiastical History	540	(14)
A---Ancient, Sacred, and Comparative Atlases (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)	540	(10)
E---Ecclesiastical and Sacred Collections (Exclusively)	550	(4)
Other Noteworthy Works with and without Maps	554	(15)
O---Other Relevant Atlases and Maps	554	(8)
B---Books, Usually without Maps	562	(7)
Index of Maps and Atlases	569	(8)
Index of Secondary Literature Cited in the Notes	577	(12)
Subject Index	589