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The Peutinger Map remains the sole medieval survivor of an imperial world-mapping tradition. It depicts most of the inhabited world as it was known to the ancients, from Britain's southern coastline to the farthest reaches of Alexander's conquests in India, showing rivers, lakes, islands, and mountains while also naming regions and the peoples who once claimed the landscape. Onto this panorama, the mapmaker has plotted the ancient Roman road network, with hundreds of images along the route and distances marked from point to point. This book challenges the artifact's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts of crusade, imperial ambitions, and competition between the German-Roman Empire and the papacy.

Geography, Ancient --- Cartography --- Roads, Roman --- Géographie ancienne --- Cartographie --- Voies romaines --- Maps. --- History. --- Cartes --- Histoire --- Peutinger, Conrad, --- Peutinger, Konrad, --- Cartography. --- Geography, Ancient. --- Roads, Roman. --- Géographie ancienne --- Roman roads --- Maps --- Atlases, Historical --- Historical atlases --- Early maps --- History --- Peutingerus, Conradus,

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"The stories recounted by Ekkehard IV in his Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall (Casus sancti Galli) have given shape and color to much of what we know about medieval monks and the wider world beyond their monastery. In his preface, Ekkehard stated that he would record "fortunate and unfortunate events that happened at the monastery of Saint Gall and Saint Otmar," repeating the words fortunia et infortunia three times in the same introductory passage. In the preface, Ekkehard also warned his audience that tracing the changing fortunes of his monastery would be a difficult task because that would touch upon the controversial subject of monastic discipline. Here Ekkehard introduced a theme that he and his fellow monks found vitally important because of the issues lying at the heart of monastic reform. From the very beginning, Ekkehard expressed his disapproval of the reform movement. In the Casus Ekkehard only hinted at contemporary debates and figures, but he was more outspoken when adding notes in the margins of manuscripts. For Ekkehard, the major issue at stake was the understanding of monastic discipline as dictated by the Rule of Benedict, and in broader terms, the nature and meaning of monastic life in its relationship to the world outside"--

Monastic and religious life --- History --- Ekkehard --- Kloster St. Gallen --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Vie religieuse et monastique --- Histoire --- Middle Ages. --- Kloster St. Gallen. --- Casus Sancti Galli (Ekkehard IV). --- 600-1500. --- Saint Gall (Switzerland) --- Switzerland --- Church history

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Christianity and culture --- Christian sociology --- Church history --- History --- History