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Dear MapHisters, There are only a few places left for our forthcoming 'Language of Maps' colloquium (23-25 June). Book now to avoid disappointment! All the best, Nick _______________________________________________________ Nick Millea Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, UK Tel: +44 1865 287119 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/ Temporary move of Special Collections: More information at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/scmoves _______________________________________________________ THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS: Communicating through cartography during the middle ages and renaissance A colloquium and exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford Thursday June 23 to Saturday June 25 2011 Historic maps have broad appeal in contemporary cultures around the world. One reason for this - it might be thought - is because the 'language of maps' is universal and straightforward, but is it? How do maps communicate to us? How do they work? This Colloquium seeks to explore these important questions by bringing together scholars whose interest lies in the visual and textual 'languages' of manuscript and printed maps from the medieval and Renaissance periods of European history. With the theme of 'communicating through cartography', the Colloquium will further our understanding and appreciation of the complexity of medieval and Renaissance maps and map-making, examining theoretical, empirical and methodological issues. The Colloquium is intentionally multidisciplinary, so contributions represent perspectives from art, linguistic and literary history, historical geography and archaeology, as well as cartography and the history of cartography. Our papers cover artistic, linguistic and palaeographical aspects of historic maps, and examine processes of cartographic production and consumption in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Through them, we shall be able to draw connections between cartographic representations of all kinds, whether manuscript or printed maps, including those of regions, countries or local landscapes. The technologies of map-production - including surveying and draughting - will be under scrutiny too, for the scientific and artistic expertise involved in making maps in the past was integral to communicating through cartography, as indeed it still is today. The Colloquium marks the ending of the AHRC-funded "Linguistic Geographies" research project on the Bodleian's world-renowned 'Gough Map of Great Britain'. To celebrate the project's conclusion, the Bodleian Library will be holding an exhibition displaying the Gough Map at the same time as the Colloquium presents the findings of the research and sees the launch of the project's online resource, a searchable digital version of the Gough Map. There will also be two evening keynote lectures, one given by Jeremy Smith, Professor of English Philology at the University of Glasgow, and a second by Peter Barber, curator of the British Library map collection. As places at the Colloquium are limited, advanced registration and enrolment is essential. To book a place and to pay for registration (and the optional dinner and field-trip) please use our dedicated online booking service "Historic Venues" at https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1116&m odid=1&compid=1 Programme: Thursday June 23, 12:00-20:00 - Rose Mitchell and Bill Shannon (The National Archives, London), Maps, dialogue and truth Paul Fermon (E.P.H.E. Paris), Making maps for lawyers: Nicolas Dipre, a painter at work circa 1500. Richard Unger (University of British Columbia), The rhetoric of sea power and the decoration of Renaissance maps Mark Rosen (University of Texas at Dallas), Interpretive projections: sixteenth-century Italian painted maps and their printed sources Paul Harvey (Durham), Medieval maps of the Holy Land: aims, communication and impact Keynote Lecture I: Jeremy Smith (Glasgow), The Gough map and the history of English Friday June 24, 09:00-20:00 - Pnina Arad (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Narrative and meta-narrative in the map of the Holy Land (Oxford, Bodl. Ms. Douce 389) Meagan Loftin (University of Washington), "Prepare also the mappa mundi": mapping on the stage in the Chester Mystery Cycle Elizabeth Solopova (Oxford) Linguistic geographies: three centuries of language, script and cartography in the Gough map of Great Britain Meg Roland (Marylhurst University), The Behaim Globe: a literary map of late medieval and early modern geographic thought Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), The polyglot map: a sixteenth-century French forest map and its graphic language(s) Galia Halpern (New York University), Mapping surface and structure beyond the sea Margaret Small (Birmingham), A Catholic concordance? Olaus Magnus and the Biblical citations on the Carta Marina Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Fra Mauro's Mappa mundi within the fifteenth-century 'Question of Language' in Venice. The role of the Camaldolese Order Dan Terkla (Illinois Wesleyan University), Furnishing the soul: mappaemundi and church tabulae Asa Mittman (California State University, Chico), The Jewish-Muslim-Polytheistic idol on the altar: the Hereford Map and the construction of the Other Keynote Lecture II: Peter Barber (The British Library, London), Manipulating Gough in the service of Henry VIII: Maurice Griffith and the Angliae Figura Saturday June 25, 09:00-13:00 - Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Medieval map-mindedness-Renaissance 'map consciousness' Jesse Simon (University College, Oxford), Abstract shapes, physical spaces: the use of theoretical geometry in Byzantine surveyor's maps Martin Foys (Drew University), Rectifying the real: digital bias and early historical maps Keith Lilley, Chris Lloyd and Catherine Porter (Queen's University Belfast), Quantifying revolution: mapping lineages in British cartography "Linguistic Geographies" web-resource launch Optional Field-Trip to Hereford Cathedral Library Mappa Mundi Exhibition: Saturday June 25 (pm)
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