Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500

Alfred Hiatt, PhD (1999), Cambridge, is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications on maps and spatial representation include Dislocations: Maps, Classical Tradition, and Spatial Play in the European Middle Ages (PIMS, 2020).

• Introduction: Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic WorldAlfred Hiatt1 The Transmission of Theoretical Geography: Maps of the Climata and the Reception of De causis Proprietatum ElementorumAlfred Hiatt2 Ptolemy’s Geography in the Arabic-Islamic ContextJean-Charles Ducène3 The Transmission of Celestial Cartography from the Arabic-Islamic World to Europe: The Celestial Maps in MS Schoenberg ljs 057Elly Dekker4 Geography at the Crossroads: The Nuzhat ­al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq of al-IdrīsīAlfred Hiatt5 Transitional” or “Transcultural” Maps? The Function and Impact of Arabic-Islamic Elements in Latin Christian Cartography of the Early Fourteenth CenturyStefan Schröder6 Pluricultural Sources of the Catalan AtlasEmmanuelle VagnonConclusion: Divergent TraditionsAlfred Hiatt and Yossef RapoportBibliographyIndex

"This compact and informative edited volume of six chapters contributes greatly to our understanding of comparative cartography in the later Middle Ages." – Zayde Antrim, in: Der Islam, vol. 99, no. 2 (2022). "Kartographische Untersuchungen werden (...). Dennoch bringt dieser schmale Band – introduction, conclusion und sechs Kapitel, von denen zwei vom Herausgeber stammen – wichtiges Neues." – Felicitas Schmieder Historisches Institut, Fern Universität in Hagen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 14 December 2022