The northern world of the Anglo-Saxon <i>mappa mundi</i>
Helen Appleton
Abstract The Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi , sometimes known as the Cotton map or Cottoniana, is found on folio 56v of London, British Library, Tiberius B. v, which dates from first half eleventh century. This unique survivor period presents a detailed image inhabited world, centred Mediterranean. map’s distinctive cartography, with its emphasis islands, seas and urban spaces, reflects an Insular, West Saxon geographic imagination. As Evelyn Edson has observed, appears to be copy earlier, larger map. article argues that ’s focus space, translatio imperii Scandinavia reminiscent Old English Orosius it originates similar milieu. northern perspective, together obvious dependence emulation Carolingian suggest lost exemplar originated in assertive England earlier tenth
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