Representaciones geográficas en los manuscritos medievales de Salustio y LucanoEl caso de los mappaemundi
ISSN: 0719-2215, 0719-689X
Year of publication: 2022
Issue: 22
Pages: 35-46
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales
Abstract
It has been traditionally assumed that the Antique knowledge was revived by the recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography in the late thirteenth century until its popularization in fifteenth-century Italy. According to this assumption, from a cartographic and geographic perspective, the classical tradition had been systematically denied during the Middle Ages. But an approach to the manuscript context of the medieval knowledge allows us to easily refute the idea of an anti-classical Middle Ages. In this article, the cartographic component of the medieval manuscripts of Sallust and Lucan works will be analysed, drawing upon its mappaemundi to study how those depictions of the world acted as vehicles of classical tradition in European Middle Ages.