All of the cartographic images listed in these
indices have individual or group monographs that accompany them. These
illustrated monographs vary in length between one page and twenty-five pages
each. Basically they are my futile attempt to capture, in one place, all of the
significant information that I could find pertaining to each illustration. This
information usually includes: a description of what geographical featrures
and/or concepts are being displayed; pertinent historical background
information; the known location of the image; references used/consulted; the
actual size of the image; and anything else that I thought was interesting
relative to the map in question. The choice of which cartographic images are
included is purely personal. The sequence is basically chronological according
to the date of either the illustration, a "scholarly estimate" or, if is a
reproduction, facsimile, reconstruction or interpretive re-drawing it is placed
within the same time frame of the original; although you will notice this is
often deviated from in order to group certain maps into my own sense of logic.
Therefore, these monographs primarily consist of information extracted
and synthesized from the documents listed below each monograph as "References"
and are in no way meant to represent any significant new research or scholarship
on my own part. On occasion I have inserted my own observations and/or
conclusions. All of the illustrated monographs for each major period (i.e.,
Ancient, Early Medieval and Late Medieval) have been combined into a bound
volume (currently a total of three volumes). Each of these paper hard copies,
which contain more illustrations than are available here online, are available
upon request.
Sorry there are not any "extra" bound versions available due
to reproduction costs (about $100 - $250 from the friendly folks at Kinkos, plus
leather binding costs).