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9781107059429 Index.Pdf Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05942-9 - The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire Emily Albu Index More information INDEX Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Adrian IV, Pope, 78–9 , 84–5 Appian Way. See Via Appia Aethicus Ister, 62 Aquileia, 108–10 Cosmographica , 56 Aristophanes, 23 agrimensores , 8 . See also Corpus Agrimensorum Aristotle Agrippa, 38 as Alexander’s tutor, 92 Agrippa’s map, 28 Augustine, St., 33 , 39 , 63 Aeneid. See Vergil, Aeneid Augustus, 25–7 Aimeric of Peguilain, 92 as road-builder, 21 , 44 Alamannia, 53 , 70 , 77 . See also Swabia represented on maps, 38 , 64 Alexander the Great, 63–4 , 71 , 92 . See also Altars of Alexander ; Frederick I, Bachrach, Bernard, 43 as a new Alexander the Great ; Frederick II, Bagrow, Leo, 23 as a new Alexander the Great ; Hereford Beard, Mary, 28 mappa mundi, Alexander references on Beatus of Liébana, 40 , 60–1 in India, 1 , 9 , 11 world maps, 40 , 60–61 , 71 , 74 , Plate 2 , in Prester John’s letter, 91 Plate 4 successors of, 96 Bible, 37 , 83–4 . See also Ezekiel ; Genesis ; Alexandria, 104 , 104–5 mappae mundi, biblical scenes on ; Mark, Alexios Angelos, 81 Gospel of ; Revelation, Book of Altar of Victory, 36 Birkholz, Daniel, 68–9 Altars of Alexander, 11 , 12 , 63 Black Forest. See silva Marciana Anaximander, 22–3 Boniface of Montferrat, 78 , 81 , 113 Ancyra, 108–10 Bowersock, Glen, 37–8 Antioch, 106–7 , 110 , 114 Brodersen, Kai, 22–3 on the Peutinger map, 89 , 95–105 , 100 , 105 antipodes, 34 Caesar. See Julius Caesar Antonine Itinerary , 6 , 56 , 63 , 111–12 canon law. See Gratian, Decretum 165 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05942-9 - The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire Emily Albu Index More information Index Carolingian maps, 44–5 Ekkehard IV Casus Sancti Galli. See Ekkehard IV ; Casus Sancti Galli , 85–6 Ratpert Eumenius, 35 Catullus, 119–20 Ezekiel, 59 Celtes, Konrad, 13–14 , 16 , 73 , 86 , 88 Charlemagne, 41–9 , 43 , 54 , 57 , 87 Fingernagel, Andreas, 76 and Hohehstaufen claims to imperial Forma urbis Romae , 24 inheritance, 79 , 80 Frederick I Barbarossa, 73 , 77–80 , 84 , legendary pilgrimage to the east, 90 88–91 Charles VI, 16 canonizing Charlemagne, 90–1 Christian maps, 29 , 36–42 , 44 . as a new Alexander the Great, 92 See also mappae mundi as patron of courtly literature, 117 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 25 Frederick II, 77–8 , 81–2 , 85–6 , 89 , 95 , 113–15 Claudius, emperor, 21 as a new Alexander the Great, 92 Claudius Caecus, Appius, 19 crowned emperor of the Romans, 115 Codex Spirensis , 56 and India, 92 Cohen-Mushlin, Aliza, 77 as king of Jerusalem, 115 Conradin, 82 as patron of courtly literature, 117 Constance of Sicily, 80 , 112 , 113 and the Peutinger city images, 102–4 , 109 , Constantine I, 79 Plate 7 Constantinople, 89 , 105 , 109–10 and Prester John’s legend, 91 on the Peutinger map, 89 , 95–6 , 98–103 , Sicilian court of, 116 99 , 107 , 115 Corpus Agrimensorum , 24 , 28 , 50 Garden of Eden. See Paradise Corsica, 112 Gautier Dalché, Patrick, 40 , 44–5 , 70–1 , 75 , 86 , Cosmas Indicopleustes 87 , 88 Christian Topography , 34 , 36 Genesis, 31 Cosmographia. See Ravenna Cosmography Gesta Francorum , 90 Council of Basel, 86 globe, 22 , 27 . See also orb Crete, 111–14 Godfrey of Viterbo crusades, 104 , 112 Pantheon , 91 First, 106 , 110 Gough map, 68–9 , 69 Third, 80 , 112 Gratian, Decretum , 79 Fourth, 80–1 , 89 , 113–14 Greek language, 57 , 81 , 86–8 curatores viarum , 20–1 Greek science, 22–3 cursus publicus , 21–2 , 44 Greek world mapping, 22–4 Cyprus, 111–14 Gregory VII, Pope, 83 Dicuil Harley, J. B., 1 , 31 Liber de mensura orbis terrae , 56–8 Heinrich von Veldeke Diogenes Laertius, 22–3 Eneit , 116–17 Domitian, 27 Henry IV, 83 , 85 Donation of Constantine, 57 Henry VI, 78 , 80 , 89 , 112–13 , 117 Donato, Pietro, 87 as poet and patron of courtly literature, 117 Ebstorf map, 65 , 75 Hereford mappa mundi, 1 , 39 , 62–6 Edson, Evelyn, 59 Alexander references on, 63 Einhard, 44 Herklotz, Ingo, 83 166 ! © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05942-9 - The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire Emily Albu Index More information Index Hermann Contractus, 53 , 85 Kantorowicz, Ernst, 95 Herodotus, 23 , 59 , 70 Kupfer, Marcia, 59 al-Idrisi, Muhammad Laurence, Ray, 19 Kitab Rujar , 93 , Plate 6 legal codes, 79 . See also Gratian, Decretum ; silver map of the world, 93 Justinian, Corpus juris civilis ; Lex regia imperial mapping, 29 , 35–6 , 44–7 , 67 , 76–103 Leo III, 41 , 44 , 68 imperial symbols, 83–5 , 97–101 , 115 , 121–2 . Levi, Annalina and Mario, 75 , 95 , See also orb 96 , 108 imperium, Roman, 26–7 , 35–6 , 46–7 , 64 . Lex regia , 79 See also renovatio imperii Romanorum ; Lieb, Hans, 51–2 sacrum imperium ; translatio imperii London India, 1 , 10–12 . See also Frederick II on itineraries of Matthew Paris, 66 and India on the Gough map, 69 in al-Idrisi’s Kitab Rujar , 93 Lothar, 45 Prester John’s legendary rule over, 91 Louis the Pious, 45 , 49 , 85 Innocent II, 84 Lowe, E. A., 49–50 Innocent III, 82–3 , 113 , 116–17 Lozovsky, Natalia, 57 Irene Angelina, 80 , 113 Lucan Isidore of Seville, 62 Pharsalia , 40 Etymologiae , 40 Lucretius, 24–5 De natura rerum , 40 itineraries, Roman, 6 , 7 , 22 , 56–7 , 108–9 . Madaba map, 36–8 , 37 See also Antonine Itinerary Manuel Komnenos, 91 and mappae mundi, 63 , 65 mappae mundi, 38 , 59–68 , 119 biblical scenes on, 1 , 62–3 , 65 Jerusalem, 105 and Prester John’s letter, 91 on Beatus maps, 61 wondrous creatures on, 1 , 62–3 Charlemagne’s interest in, 47 maps. See also imperial mapping crusades and, 80 , 110 o ff ering contemplative journeys, 65 , 66 on the Ebstorf map, 65 maps, Carolingian. See Carolingian maps Frederick II, king of, 82 , 113–14 maps, Roman. See Roman maps on the Hereford map, 1 Marble Plan. See Forma urbis Romae on the Madaba map, 36–8 , 37 Mark, Gospel of, 31–2 on a map by Matthew Paris, 67 Martianus Capella, 62 on mappae mundi, 59 Matthew Paris on the Peutinger map, 12 , 13 , 47–8 , maps of, 39 , 66–7 , Plate 5 65 , 115 Maximilian I, 13 and Prester John, 91 milestones, 9 , 20–1 , 32 Julius Caesar Miller, Konrad, 10 , 15 , 74 , 95–7 , 115–16 and Catullus’s verbal display of the Modoin, 45–6 oikoumene , 119–20 monasteries, imperial, 48–57 , 77–8 , 85–8 as dominus mundi , 25 and globe, 27 Nicaea, 108–10 without a map, 24 Nicomedia, 108–10 referred to on maps, 38 , 64 , 65 nimbus, 55 , 100 , 100–1 Justinian, 79 , 80 , 100–1 , 108 Notitia Dignitatum , 8 , 55 , 56 , 100 , Corpus juris civilis , 7 9 Plate 1 167 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05942-9 - The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire Emily Albu Index More information Index oikoumene , 1 , 4 , 29 . See also orbis terrarum icons on, 1 , 6 , 8 , 75 , 76 , 95–115 . Christian depictions of, 59 See also Altars of Alexander ; Cosmas’s depiction of, 35 Alexandria ; Ancyra ; Antioch ; Aquileia ; geographical survey of, 39 Constantinople ; Frederick II and the Greek depictions of, 22 , 59 Peutinger city images ; Jerusalem on Roman rule over, 25–6 the Peutinger map ; Nicaea ; Nicomedia ; orb, 33 , 42 , 43 , 81 , 115 . Plate 3 , See also globe ; Ravenna ; Rome ; Thessalonica Peutinger map, orbs on islands on, 109–15 orbis terrarum , 1 , 8–9 , 25 . See also oikoumene Judeo-Christian elements on, 12–13 , 71–2 verbal display of, 120 mileage fi gures on, 121 Orosius, 62 orbs on, 97–101 , 98 , 99 Historiae adversus paganos , 39 , 40 , 50 Peloponnese on, 110–15 , 111 Otto of Freising, 91 peoples on, 53 Otto I, 79 , 80 production of, 4–8 , 76–8 , 89–90 Ottonian dynasty, 54–5 , Plate 3 prototype and transmission, 5–6 , 47–58 , Ovid, 24 74–5 , 107–8 and the Ravenna Cosmography, 111 Padua map, 86–7 reconstruction of missing end, 10 Paradise, 39 roads on, 97 , 99 , 110 , 119–22 on Beatus maps, 61 as a Roman map, 2 , 16–17 , 48–9 on the Hereford map, 1 , 62 trees on, 115 . See also silva Marciana on mappae mundi, 38 , 59–60 Philip of Swabia, 78 , 80–82 , 81 , 89 , 113 and Prester John’s kingdom, 91 Plan of St. Gall, 51 , 52 Paris, Matthew, 66–7 Pliny the Elder pax Romana Natural History , 9–11 , 50 and Roman roads, 21 Polybius, 25 Peloponnese. See Peutinger map, Prester John, 91–2 Peloponnese on Prisciani, Pellegrino, 86 Peutingen, Desiderius Ignaz von, 16 Ptolemy, Claudius, 23 , 74–5 Peutinger, Konrad, 13–14 , 16 , 73 , 75 , 76 , 86 Ratpert Peutinger map. See also imperial symbols ; Casus Sancti Galli , 60 , 85 Swabia, Peutinger map production in Ravenna, 108–10 baths on, 7 , 121 Ravenna Cosmography , 112 as a Carolingian map, 2 , 45–58 Reichenau, 48–57 , 60 , 75 , 85–8 compared to the Gough map, 68–9 Richard I, king of England, 112 compared to the Madaba map, 38 renovatio imperii Romanorum , 54 , 87 , 89 compared to mappae mundi, 70–2 Revelation, Book of, 61 compared to Matthew Paris’s itineraries, 67 roads, 32 , 42–4 . See also Peutinger map, roads compared to the Padua map, 86–7 on ; Roman roads copies attempted of, 14–15 , 73–4 , 102 on the Gough map, 68–70 and the crusades, 3–4 , 76 and the Hereford map, 63 dating, 76 , 102–3 , 103 , 114–15 , Plate 8 Roger II, king of Sicily, 82 , 93 described, 1 , 4–13 Roman land surveyors.
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