Mapping the Realm: A New Look at the Gough Map of Britain (c.1360)
Mapping the Realm: A New Look at the Gough Map of Britain (c.1360)
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绘制王国地图：英国高夫地图的新视角（c.1360）
DOI：
10.1080/03085690802456228
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发表时间：
2009
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0.2
通讯作者：
B. Campbell
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作者：
K. Lilley;C. Lloyd;B. Campbell
十四世纪中叶的英国地图被称为“高夫”地图，是现存最早的以地理可识别形式描绘该岛的地图。然而，迄今为止，对地图上标记的道路或路线模式的兴趣意味着地图上极其丰富的聚落地理尚未受到应有的关注，因此，地图的要点可能被忽略了。地图数字扫描的出现与地理信息系统（GIS）软件的使用相结合，为重新审视高夫地图及其提出的问题提供了机会。本文的重点是它所显示的定居点地理，特别是地图上的 654 个城市、城镇、村庄、城堡和修道院。将手稿上给出的地理位置与现代对应物进行比较，以阐明一些基本问题——地图的起源地、制作地图的目的或目的以及制作环境——这些问题对学者们提出了这样的挑战。我们的初步结论是，理解高夫地图最初的主要作用的关键在于它对十四世纪英国聚落地理的准确但有选择性的描绘。
The mid‐fourteenth century map of Britain known as the ‘Gough’ map is the earliest extant depiction of the island in geographically recognizable form. Hitherto, however, interest in the road or route patterns marked on the map has meant that the map's extraordinarily rich settlement geography has not received the attention it merits and that, consequently, the point of the map may have been missed. The availability of a digital scan of the map coupled with the use of Geographical Information System (GIS) software provides the opportunity for a new look at the Gough map and the questions it poses. Attention in this article is directed to the settlement geography it shows, and in particular to the map's 654 cities, towns, villages, castles and monasteries. Their geographical positions as given on the manuscript are compared with their modern equivalents to shed light on some of the basic questions—the map's place of origin, the purpose or purposes for which it was made and the circumstances of its production—that have posed such a challenge for scholars. Our preliminary conclusion is that the key to understanding the original primary role of the Gough map lies in its accurate but selective depiction of the settlement geography of fourteenth‐century Britain.