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Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered

Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered AL-MASĀQ, 2017 VOL. 29, NO. 1, 84–97 BOOK REVIEWS Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered, by Richard J. A. Talbert, 2010, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, xviii + 357 pp., £29.99 / US$44.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780521764803 The Peutinger map or Tabula Peutingeriana (as it is referred to by Talbert) is an incomplete map of the Roman world, conserved in the Austrian National Library, which includes an elab- orate network of routes. It is formed of eleven single parchment segments, designed to be joined together side by side to create a long ribbon. Talber’s work constitutes the first book in English dedicated to the features, context and history of the Peutinger map. Since its appearance, other books dealing with the map as a medieval artefact have also been published, completing and sometimes challenging Talbert’s work. According to Talbert, the Peutinger map, produced in around 1200, is a copy of a lost original dating to the era of Diocletian’s tet- rarchy (c.300). The book is composed of an introduction, five chapters, a conclusion, nine appendices, end- notes, bibliography, an index and a gazetteer. It contains several illustrations (especially in Chapter 5) which help to contextualise and explain the map. Other http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ, 2017 VOL. 29, NO. 1, 84–97 BOOK REVIEWS Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered, by Richard J. A. Talbert, 2010, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, xviii + 357 pp., £29.99 / US$44.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780521764803 The Peutinger map or Tabula Peutingeriana (as it is referred to by Talbert) is an incomplete map of the Roman world, conserved in the Austrian National Library, which includes an elab- orate network of routes. It is formed of...
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AL-MASĀQ, 2017 VOL. 29, NO. 1, 84–97 BOOK REVIEWS Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered, by Richard J. A. Talbert, 2010, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, xviii + 357 pp., £29.99 / US$44.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780521764803 The Peutinger map or Tabula Peutingeriana (as it is referred to by Talbert) is an incomplete map of the Roman world, conserved in the Austrian National Library, which includes an elab- orate network of routes. It is formed of eleven single parchment segments, designed to be joined together side by side to create a long ribbon. Talber’s work constitutes the first book in English dedicated to the features, context and history of the Peutinger map. Since its appearance, other books dealing with the map as a medieval artefact have also been published, completing and sometimes challenging Talbert’s work. According to Talbert, the Peutinger map, produced in around 1200, is a copy of a lost original dating to the era of Diocletian’s tet- rarchy (c.300). The book is composed of an introduction, five chapters, a conclusion, nine appendices, end- notes, bibliography, an index and a gazetteer. It contains several illustrations (especially in Chapter 5) which help to contextualise and explain the map. Other

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