Imaginary Cartographies

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In bas strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.

Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups -- notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans -- developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformat

Daniel Lord Smail is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University.

List of Illustrations

vii

List of Tables

ix

Preface

xi

A Note on Names

xvii

Abbreviations

xix

Introduction Imaginary Cartographies

1

(19)

The Public Notariate

20

(10)

The Bureaucratic Science of Classification

30

(7)

Marseille: A Case Study

37

(5)

Marseille

42

(23)

Social Topography and Political Structures

43

(15)

The City Imagined

58

(7)

The Notary as Cartographer

65

(45)

Notarial Cartography

69

(26)

Making the Map

95

(15)

Seigneurial Islands

110

(30)

The Cartography of the Episcopal Curia

117

(6)

The Cartography of the Royal Curia

123

(4)

The Cartography of the City Council

127

(3)

The Decline of the Insular Template

130

(10)

Vernacular Cartography

140

(48)

The Templates of Vicinity and Landmark

142

(19)

Contested Sites

161

(10)

The Decline of the Artisanal and Retail Vicinity

171

(17)

Identity and Address

188

(34)

Shaping Identities

195

(8)

Identity and Address in Notarial Casebooks

203

(12)

Addresses in Seigneurial Records

215

(7)

Epilogue

222

(7)

Appendix 1: Lexical Terms Used in the Register of the Confraternity of St. Jacques de Gallicia, by Category

229

(4)

Appendix 2: The Prosopographical Index

233

(4)

Bibliography

237

(14)

Index

251

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