Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Cartographic evidence for seventeenth-century ‘cross-sites’ in North-East Scotland: Robert Gordon of Straloch and the Blaeu maps of Scotland

Cartographic evidence for seventeenth-century ‘cross-sites’ in North-East Scotland: Robert Gordon... This paper considers the cartographic depiction of a series of crosses shown on one of Robert Gordon of Straloch’s seventeenth-century maps of North-East Scotland. Their portrayal in map form within the religious context of the time is problematic. Their potential existence on the ground raises even greater problems of identity and form. That they were not, in reality, as they were depicted on the maps is evident by the landscape evidence. The survival of documentary evidence in the form of the Straloch Papers moves the story from the North-East of Scotland to Amsterdam, the place of production of the maps. These papers describe aspects of the wider political upheavals during which these maps were made and suggest possible motivations beyond geographic interest. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape History Taylor & Francis

Cartographic evidence for seventeenth-century ‘cross-sites’ in North-East Scotland: Robert Gordon of Straloch and the Blaeu maps of Scotland

Shepherd, Colin
Landscape History , Volume 37 (1): 17 – Jan 2, 2016
Download PDF
18 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/cartographic-evidence-for-seventeenth-century-cross-sites-in-north-xnqKU3EOFO

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2016 Society for Landscape Studies
ISSN
2160-2506
eISSN
0143-3768
DOI
10.1080/01433768.2016.1176436
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This paper considers the cartographic depiction of a series of crosses shown on one of Robert Gordon of Straloch’s seventeenth-century maps of North-East Scotland. Their portrayal in map form within the religious context of the time is problematic. Their potential existence on the ground raises even greater problems of identity and form. That they were not, in reality, as they were depicted on the maps is evident by the landscape evidence. The survival of documentary evidence in the form of the Straloch Papers moves the story from the North-East of Scotland to Amsterdam, the place of production of the maps. These papers describe aspects of the wider political upheavals during which these maps were made and suggest possible motivations beyond geographic interest.

Journal

Landscape History – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2016

Keywords: Maps; crosses; cross-sites; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; civil war; river systems; watersheds; boundaries

References

  • Irish wayside and churchyard crosses 1600–1700
  • Judicial assembly sites in Scotland: archaeological and place-name evidence of the Scottish court hill
  • On mapping and its afterlife: unfolding landscapes in northwestern North America
  • Description of sculptured symbol stone at Rayne and small cross at Culsalmond, Aberdeenshire
  • Moss Rooms and Hell Holes: the landscape of the Leyland dispute maps, 1571–1599
  • Agrarian and settlement characterisation in post-medieval Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire, 1600–1760
  • Changing tenurial forms and service renders in the North-East of Scotland between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries: evidence of social development, capitalised agrarianism and ideological change
  • The Newton Stone
  • Robert Gordon of Straloch: cartographer or chorographer
  • Robert Gordon and the making of the first Atlas of Scotland
  • Oyne School Community Heritage Project
  • Gazetteer and Appendices