Evelyn Edson

Evelyn Edson (born November 28, 1940) is an author, medievalist, and professor emerita of history. Quotes 'Reading a map' in the Middle Ages could mean scanning great blocks of written matter, describing geographical, anthropological, and historical features. The Hereford map asks for the prayers of all those who 'see, read, hear or possess' it. https://books.google.com/books?id=yWsnAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=prayers 9780712345361 Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World 1999 British Library (quote from p. 134) Behind the maps of the sixteenth century lies another story—the change in geographical conceptions, mapmaking, and map usage that took place in the late Middle Ages. Pietro Vesconte, Cresques Abraham, Fra Mauro, Andrea Bianco, and Henricus Martellus Germanus were among the medieval cartographers who began to reshape the image of the world before Columbus sailed west. Preface https://books.google.com/books?id=dK-TTLbCw78C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=geographical%20conceptions%2C%20mapmaking%2C%20and%20map%20usage&f=false 9781421404301 The World Map, 1300–1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation 15 July 2007 JHU Press Looking at a medieval mappamundi (or world map) is a disorienting experience. Oriented to the east, displaying unfamiliar geographical forms and blanketed with images of strange animals and monstrous humans, it does not correspond to our modern concept of a world map. 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00676.x The Medieval World View: Contemplating the Mappamundi 2010 History Compass 8 6 503–517 External links Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Historians from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1940s