| FT-53505-05 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Martin Kennedy Foys | Digital Edition of the Cotton Anglo-Saxon Map of the World | 6/1/2005 - 8/31/2005 | $5,000.00 | Martin | Kennedy | Foys | | | | Hood College | Frederick | MD | 21701-8524 | USA | 2005 | Medieval Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
The Cotton _mappamundi_ is the oldest detailed English map of the world, and both looks back to England's Roman colonial past and forward to its imperial future. This project will produce a comprehensive digital edition as a resource for scholars and students to investigate the content and context of this significant (but neglected) historical document. The digital format of this edition creates a more efficient, intuitive and powerful architecture of study than possible in traditional print. Within the program, users can navigate a high-resolution facsimile of the map, as well as transparently link to commentary on its specific details, or to a wealth of contextual information such as literary sources, related medieval maps, background essays, and modern scholarship. |