Christopher Saxton's 16th Century Maps
Author: Christopher Saxton
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781853103544
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Christopher Saxton, Elizabethan Map-maker
Author: Ifor M. Evans
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Saxton was a surveyor by profession. His major achievement was a survey of English and Welsh counties which he began in 1574 and completed by 1579.
Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland
Author: B. Klein
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-01-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230598110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.
English Maps
Author: Catherine Delano-Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introductory volume on the history of English maps. The authors adopt the revisionist perspectives of the new history of cartography, and review a broad range of maps, ranging in date from about 700 AD to the beginning of the 20th century. Their principle objective is to explore the ways in which maps have interacted with society in England's past, to analyze the roles that maps have played and the uses to which they have been put.
Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps
Author: David Buisseret
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-12-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226079875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations. By 1500 a few rulers had already discovered that better knowledge of their lands would strengthen their control over them; by 1550, the cartographer's art had become an important instrument for bringing territories under the control of centralized government. Throughout the following century increasing governmental reliance on maps demanded greater accuracy and more sophisticated techniques. This volume, a detailed survey of the political uses of cartography between 1400 and 1700 in Europe, answers these questions: When did monarchs and ministers begin to perceive that maps could be useful in government? For what purposes were maps commissioned? How accurate and useful were they? How did cartographic knowledge strengthen the hand of government? By focusing on particular places and periods in early modern Europe, the chapters offer new insights into the growth of cartography as a science, the impetus behind these developments - often rulers attempting to expand their power - and the role of mapmaking in European history. The essay on Poland reveals that cartographic progress came only under the impetus of powerful rulers; another explores the French monarchy's role in the burst of scientific cartography that marked the opening of the "splendid century". Additional chapters discuss the profound influence of cartographic ideas on the English aristocracy during the sixteenth century, the relation of progress in mapmaking to imperialistic goals of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs, and the supposed primacy of Italian mapmakingfollowing the Renaissance. Contributors to this volume are Peter Barber, David Buisseret, John Marino, Michael J. Mikos, Geoffrey Parker, and James Vann. These essays were originally presented as the Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library.
Tudor England
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-11-17
Total Pages: 1747
ISBN-13: 1136745297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami
Some Notable Surveyors and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and their Work
Author: Herbert George Fordham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1107452856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, which was first published in 1929, Fordham presents a study regarding the history of cartography.
Historian's Guide to Early British Maps
Author: Helen Wallis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-06
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521551526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.
The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England
Author: D K Smith
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-28
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1409475123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.
Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521803779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britian argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.
