IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 115: Insular Mappings: Britain and Ireland in Exegesis, Historiography, and Cartography
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Forum, Queen's University Belfast |
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| Organiser: | Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast |
| Moderator/Chair: | Catherine A. M. Clarke, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Department of English, Swansea University |
| Paper 115-a | Augustus, Rome, and the Atlantic Archipelago on the Hereford mappa mundi (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Theology |
| Paper 115-b | The Gough Map of Great Britain and its Geographical and Historiographical Traditions (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Science |
| Abstract | Maps have long played a role in mediating ideas of nationhood, territory, and identity. This session focuses on particular textual and visual 'mappings' of Britain and Ireland, from the time of Bede through to the reign of Edward III, and explores how traditions of cartography, literature, exegesis, and history collectively mapped out an enduring imagined geography of these marginally-situated islands located at the Ends of the Earth. All three papers share a common geographical theme therefore, but each also takes a different historical and historiographical setting to highlight the continuities, through both space and time, between these 'insular mappings'. |