Cartographic Essays
West Africa in 1660: Trade, Empires, and the At...
I. The Map as Historical Argument This hand-painted map presents West Africa around the year 1660, a moment of unstable equilibrium between older trans-Saharan systems and an emerging Atlantic world....
West Africa in 1660: Trade, Empires, and the At...
I. The Map as Historical Argument This hand-painted map presents West Africa around the year 1660, a moment of unstable equilibrium between older trans-Saharan systems and an emerging Atlantic world....
Carolus Magnus: Mapping an Empire in the Making
Pater Europae - Charlemagne Progress Picture This map presents the Carolingian realm during the final decades of Charlemagne’s reign, at a moment when Frankish power was extensive but uneven, expansive...
Carolus Magnus: Mapping an Empire in the Making
Pater Europae - Charlemagne Progress Picture This map presents the Carolingian realm during the final decades of Charlemagne’s reign, at a moment when Frankish power was extensive but uneven, expansive...
An Empire That Defied the Map: The Holy Roman E...
I came to this map not first as a cartographer, but as a historian who has lived with the late Holy Roman Empire for more than a decade. Although the...
An Empire That Defied the Map: The Holy Roman E...
I came to this map not first as a cartographer, but as a historian who has lived with the late Holy Roman Empire for more than a decade. Although the...
A Cartography of Translation: Mapping the Zenit...
A modern map wearing early modern Ottoman clothes—accurate in outline, historical in voice.
A Cartography of Translation: Mapping the Zenit...
A modern map wearing early modern Ottoman clothes—accurate in outline, historical in voice.
Kathmandu Valley (Nepāla Maṇḍala): A Newar Cosm...
A cosmological map of the Kathmandu Valley that presents Nepāla Maṇḍala through Newar religious geography, sacred sites, and ritual iconography.
Kathmandu Valley (Nepāla Maṇḍala): A Newar Cosm...
A cosmological map of the Kathmandu Valley that presents Nepāla Maṇḍala through Newar religious geography, sacred sites, and ritual iconography.