Cartographic Essays

Carolus Magnus: Mapping an Empire in the Making

Carolus Magnus: Mapping an Empire in the Making

Harrison Goohs

I. Pater Europae 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 yet structurally fragile....

Carolus Magnus: Mapping an Empire in the Making

Harrison Goohs

I. Pater Europae 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 yet structurally fragile....

An Empire That Defied the Map: The Holy Roman Empire (1789)

An Empire That Defied the Map: The Holy Roman E...

Harrison Goohs

I. A Map That Cannot Lie On October 17, 1797, the day after he smashed Ludwig von Cobenzl's porcelain cabaret on the parquet floor at Campo Formio — a gift...

An Empire That Defied the Map: The Holy Roman E...

Harrison Goohs

I. A Map That Cannot Lie On October 17, 1797, the day after he smashed Ludwig von Cobenzl's porcelain cabaret on the parquet floor at Campo Formio — a gift...

A Cartography of Translation: Mapping the Zenith of the Ottoman World

A Cartography of Translation: Mapping the Zenit...

Harrison Goohs

A modern map wearing early modern Ottoman clothes—accurate in outline, historical in voice.  

A Cartography of Translation: Mapping the Zenit...

Harrison Goohs

A modern map wearing early modern Ottoman clothes—accurate in outline, historical in voice.  

Kathmandu Valley (Nepāla Maṇḍala): A Newar Cosmological Map

Kathmandu Valley (Nepāla Maṇḍala): A Newar Cosm...

Harrison Goohs

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...

Harrison Goohs

A cosmological map of the Kathmandu Valley that presents Nepāla Maṇḍala through Newar religious geography, sacred sites, and ritual iconography.