Mapping medieval Utopia: Exercises in restraint

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 585-618

  Birkholz, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 62749180826     PISSN: 10829636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10829636-2006-006     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. For recent discussions of the triptych, see Naomi Reed Kline, Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford Paradigm (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2001), 2-5, 76-80, 202-3
2. Terkla, "Original Placement," 132-33, 138, 143
3. Terkla, "Original Placement," 135, 141, 145
4. For cathedral layout and fabric, see Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller, eds., Hereford Cathedral: A History (London: Hambledon Press, 2000)
5. Terkla, "Original Placement," 145,146
6. Finucane, Medieval Pilgrims, 173-88
7. Terkla, "Original Placement," 146
8. Susan A. Stewart, "Genres at Work: The Folktale of Silas Marner," New Literary History 34 (2003): 513-33
9. and Dorothy F. Donnelly, Patterns of Order and Utopia (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998)
10. Sargisson, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism, 15-16
11. Paul Zumthor, "The Medieval Travel Narrative," trans. Catherine Peebles, New Literary History 25 (1994): 809-24. A glance at titles in the journal Studies in Utopianism will confirm the scholarly consensus that seems to surround this notion
12. Donnelly, Patterns of Order, 4, 7-10
13. Judith N. Shklar, "What Is the Use of Utopia?" in Tobin Siebers, ed., Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), 40-57, at 42
14. Donnelly, Patterns of Order, 7, 9-10, 29-30, foregrounds Augustinianism (to which her point about "conflicting premises" refers) as the Middle Ages' "regnant pattern of thought." Mappaemundi had their basis in Augustinianism
15. see Angelo Cattaneo, "God in His World: The Earthly Paradise in Fra Mauro's Mappamundi Illuminated by Leonardo Bellini," Imago Mundi 55 (2003): 97-102, at 99
16. Tobin Siebers, "What Does Postmodernism Want? Utopia," in Siebers, ed., Heterotopia, 1-38, at 2-3
17. Donnelly, Patterns of Order, 6
18. Alessandro Scafi, "Mapping Eden: Cartographies of the Earthly Paradise," in Denis Cosgrove, ed., Mappings (London: Reaktion Books, 1999), 50-70, at 50, 53, 51-52, 65
19. also Jean Delumeau, History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition, trans. Matthew O'Connell (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 70; see 15-20, 39-55 for Eden's "historical character"; 56-70 for cartography
20. Zumthor, "Medieval Travel Narratives," 821
21. Siebers, "What Does Postmodernism Want?" rejects "chronological thinking," but later wonders whether postmodernism is "a grand narrative in spite of itself" (3-4, 2, 8)
22. Brian R. Goodey, "Mapping Utopia: A Comment on the Geography of Sir Thomas More," Geographical Journal 60.1 (1970): 15-30, at 21,15
23. Marin, Utopics, 203-4
24. Scafi, "Mapping Eden," 54
25. see also Delumeau, History of Paradise, 58, 63
26. For rivers, see Cattaneo, "God in His World," 97-99
27. and Delumeau, History of Paradise, 39-70
28. For paradise as an intermediate "place of waiting," prior to Apocalypse, see Delumeau, History of Paradise, 23-38. An apocalyptic mode is virtually inherent to mappaemundi; see discussion, below, of the Hereford Map's Last Judgment scene
29. Campbell, The Witness and the Other World, 8
30. See Birkholz, King's Two Maps, 13-14, 71-75, 80-85
31. For Christ in Majesty in a cartographic context, see Birkholz, King's Two Maps, 33-34, 18
32. Juergen Schulz, "Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice: Map-Making, City Views, and Moralized Geography before the Year 1500," Art Bulletin 60 (1978): 425 -74, at 449
33. see also David Lawton, "Sacrilege and Theatricality: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003): 281-310, at 281
34. For a temporally expansive take on this scene, see David Lawton, "The Surveying Subject and the 'Whole World' of Belief: Three Case Studies," New Medieval Literatures 4 (2001): 9-37
35. Sylvia Tomasch, "Mappae Mundi and 'The Knight's Tale': The Geography of Power, the Technology of Control," in Kathryn Lynch, ed., Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York: Routledge, 2002), 193-224
36. A. C. Cawley, "Everyman" and Medieval Miracle Plays (London: J. M. Dent, 1993), 33
37. Zumthor, "Medieval Travel Narratives," 821-22
38. DN65-80; but note Uxor Noe's foot-dragging: "wee mon nothing els doe; / Women be weake to underfoe / Any great travayle" (66-68)
39. Shklar, "What Is the Use of Utopia?" 40-41
40. Mary J. Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 43, 253-54, 343
41. Cattaneo, "God in His World," 98
42. Siebers, "What Does Postmodernism Want?" 3
43. Terkla, "Original Placement," 148
44. Siebers, "What Does Postmodernism Want?" 8-9,10
45. See Happé, English Mystery Plays, 221-29
46. see also Valerie Flint, "The Hereford Map: Its Author[s], Two Scenes and a Border," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6.8 (1998): 19-44
47. Terkla, Original Placement," 138,144