Dear All,
Here’s an early announcement for the first “TOSCA” of 2019/20, and as you will see, there’s a very close link to the two events taking in place in France, details of which I have included below.
With best wishes,
Nick
THE OXFORD SEMINARS IN CARTOGRAPHY
27th Annual Series
Programme for 2019-2020
2019
Wednesday 20 November The Albi map [after 1312]: an early example of the French local map tradition
Juliette Dumasy
(Université d’Orléans)
Seminar runs from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG;
Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by:
The Friends of TOSCA
The Bodleian Libraries
The School of Geography and the Environment
The Charles Close Society
Lovell Johns Ltd
Exhibition in Paris
Exhibition : « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance »
Paris, Hôtel Soubise, Musée des Archives Nationales, 25 september 2019-6 january 2020
http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/fr/web/guest/quand-les-artistes-dessinaient-les-cartes
It is our pleasure to announce the opening of our exhibition « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes : vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance » at the Archives nationales (Paris). Focusing on local and regional maps produced in France between 1300 and 1600, it examines a moment in the history of cartography when empirical observation was preferred to measurement in mapmaking. The maps were produced to delineate boundaries or legal rights, resolve territorial disputes, document public works, support military operations, describe historical events, catalogue possessions and celebrate the identity of a place or territory. Many of these "figures" (as they were called at the time) were made by painters, who drew on their expertise in drawing and perspective to create what were often spectacular images: richly colored and abundantly detailed, these undeniably beautiful images occupy they intersection of art and cartography. Most of the 100 maps in the show are being exhibited for the first time, providing exceptional insight into the landscapes and settings of everyday life at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Conference in Paris and Orléans
Conference: Medieval and Early Modern Large-scale cartography in Europe
Paris-Orléans, 15-16 October 2019
The colloquium will be held in conjunction with the exhibition entitled “Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes” at the National Archives in Paris (29 May – 30 September 2019). It will focus on the emergence, forms, and functions of large-scale cartography in Europe during the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern period.
The practices of large-scale mapping in Europe first emerge in the Early Middle Ages, with images like the Plan of St. Gall, and slightly later when maps were made to illustrate the city of Jerusalem for pilgrims and crusaders, and cartularies (for example, that of Marmoutier) began to document monastic holdings graphically rather than just textually. Subsequently, maps were drawn using many forms and techniques to delineate a wide variety of landscapes and territories, for a diverse range of patrons and purposes. Their numbers grow dramatically in the late fifteenth and sixteenth-century, when they become common tools for the resolution of disputes. And although they emerge in parallel to practices of smaller-scale mapping, the techniques and contexts of large-scale mapping are distinct.
Maps represented rural and urban landscapes and communities, larger regions or provinces, islands, and entire countries. They delineated dominion, documented or proposed construction or repairs, described historical events, catalogued possessions, defined boundaries and celebrated identity. They served legal, administrative, municipal, ecclesiastical and mercantile needs, and were commissioned by rulers, judges, town councils, landowners, and monastic foundations. Often drawn by painters and other artists, maps were also produced by clerks and notaries, scholars and surveyors.
The diversity of their functions and patrons is paralleled in their wide-ranging pictorial conventions. These vary widely, but are often dependent on contemporary artistic forms. Perspective is used selectively, and the point of view of the map can take almost any axis from perpendicular to the terrain (aerial perspective) down in an arc through the bird’s eye view, the cavalier perspective, and the worm’s eye view. Supports
range from parchment and paper to cloth, and panel; they can be produced on single sheets, multiple skins pieced together, and bound in books.
For much of the twentieth century, scholars held that few if any large-scale maps were produced before the modern period, particularly in France. Early studies, by François de Dainville, P. D. A. Harvey and R. A. Skelton uncovered only a modest number of examples and suggested that practices of large-scale mapping only emerged later. More recent scholarship has demonstrated that, in fact, hundreds of large-scale maps survive from France alone, in numbers that are probably comparable in other regions. Yet even today, few researchers focus on these rich images, which remain little known and little published. Despite new avenues of research into diagrams and other graphic means of recording and conveying information in the Middle Ages, maps often occupy a secondary or dependent role in scholarship that has traditionally emphasized text. And almost no efforts have been made to compare practices and traditions across national borders, so the continuities or unique features of particular approaches are still poorly understood.
The colloquium hopes to investigate some of the following questions: Are there distinct national practices for the preparation of large-scale maps? Or do practices of large-scale mapping transcend national boundaries and drawing traditions? What documentary evidence survives that details production practices? Were specific materials preferred and if so, why? What is the role and status of the painter in the preparation of large-scale maps, and how are they described in contemporary documents? What is the role of color in large-scale maps? How does the emergence of large-scale cartography relate to emerging practices of the graphic representation of knowledge? Historiographical approaches are also welcome.
Programme
Tueday 15 October
Paris, Hôtel Soubise, Musée des Archives Nationales
9h15 : accueil
9h30 : discours d’accueil de Bruno Ricard, directeur des Archives Nationales
9h45 : visite de l’exposition
10h50 : conférence inaugurale : Paul Harvey (University of Durham), « A grande échelle – ou à aucune »
Thème 1 : carte et idée du territoire. Présidence : Olivier Matteoni (Université Paris I)
11h20 : Judith Förstel (Service patrimoine et inventaires de la Région Île-de-France), « L’Île-de-France dans les cartes médiévales : comment représenter une province ? »
11h40 : Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University, Etats-Unis), « La dicte figure ne se rapporte à la verité : la figure accordée de Suresnes de Georges Lallemant (AN CP Seine et Oise 479/1) »
12h00 : discussion
Déjeuner
Après-midi
Présidence : Catherine Hofmann (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
14h15 : Léonard Dauphant (Université de Lorraine – Metz), « Entre liste et carte, les vues itinéraires ? Les vues figurées comme témoin d’une représentation mentale de l’espace médiéval (France, XVe siècle) »
14h35 : Thomas Horst (CIUHCT/FCUL, Lisbon), “Large-scale Cartography in Renaissance Germany: Legal and administrative manuscript maps as Sources for Cultural History”
14h55 : Samantha Frénée (POLEN, Université d’Orléans), “The Ditchley Portrait’s cartographic gap between the monarch and the nation”
15h15 : discussion
Pause
Thème 2 : auteurs et techniques (1). Présidence : Ghislain Brunel (Archives Nationales)
15h45 : Rose Mitchell (The National Archives of the United Kingdom), “Some 16th century English maps and makers: a view from The National Archives of the United Kingdom”
16h05 : Paul Fermon (EPHE), « La fabrique de la carte locale. Difficultés techniques et solutions juridiques du cartographe-enquêteur au Moyen Âge »
16h25 : Etienne Hamon (IRHiS, Université de Lille) : « Les projets dessinés pour la défense urbaine en France aux XVe et XVIe siècle. Fonctions, auteurs et techniques »
16h45 : discussion
17h : départ pour Orléans
Wednesday 16 October
Orléans, Hôtel Dupanloup
Matin
Thème 2 : auteurs et techniques (2). Présidence : Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Université d’Orléans)
9h15 : Catherine Delano-Smith (University of London), “Who produced the medieval Gough Map of Britain, why and how?”
9h35 : Raphaële Skupien (TRAME, Université d’Amiens), « Être peintre et cartographe en France avant 1550, un savoir-faire particulier ? »
9h55 : Sébastien Nadiras (Archives Nationales), « Les mots dans les cartes : lexique, toponymie et discours dans les figures judiciaires (France du Nord, fin du XVe - milieu du XVIe siècle) »
10h15 : discussion
Pause
Thème 3 : Etudes de cas : villes, eaux, forêts. Présidence : Catherine Delano-Smith (University of London)
10h50 : Nathalie Bouloux (CESR, Université de Tours), « La carte locale de l’aire thermale de Montegrotto, près de Padoue »
11h10 : Emmanuelle Vagnon (LAMOP-CNRS), « Le ‘rouleau d’Apremont’ (1542), cartographie et aménagement fluvial à la Renaissance »
11h30 : Armelle Querrien (LAMOP-CNRS), « Technique des vues figurées à la fin du XIVe et au début du XVe siècle : des indices relevés chez Bertran Boysset »
11h50 : discussion
Déjeuner
Après-midi
Présidence : Jean-Patrice Boudet (Université d’Orléans)
14h15 : Françoise Michaud-Fréjaville (POLEN, Université d’Orléans), « Image et texte, réalités et interprétation : la terre de Cornusse (XVe-XVIe s.) »
14h35 : Gaël Lebreton (FRAMESPA, Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), « Les cartes figurées de Castelferrus : exclusives ou complémentaires ? »
14h55: Anthony Gerbino (Université de Manchester), “The gruerie of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (1609) in light of new documents”
15h15 : discussion
Pause
Présidence : Nadine Gastaldi (Archives Nationales)
15h45 : Axelle Chassagnette (LARHRA, Université Lyon 2), « Villes, sièges et batailles pendant la guerre de Quatre-vingts-ans aux Pays-Bas : les stratégies graphiques de représentation à grande échelle dans les Geschichtsblätter de
l'atelier Hogenberg (années 1573-1576) »
16h05 : Christophe Speroni (POLEN, Université d’Orléans), « Les « bonnes villes » du Val de Loire dans les profils et plans urbains du XVIe siècle »
16h25 : discussion
17h : fin du colloque
Archives Nationales, Hôtel Soubise, 60 rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
Hôtel Dupanloup, Rue Dupanloup, 45000 Orléans
Organisation : Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Université d’Orléans), Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), Emmanuelle Vagnon (LAMOP-CNRS)
Contact : [log in to unmask]
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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Tel: 01865 287119
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Web: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps
‘Talking Maps’ Exhibition:
Weston Library, Oxford: 5 July 2019 to 8 March 2020
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