Grace Harpster, Georgia State University

The Bishop’s Maps: Cartography and Spiritual Governance in Sixteenth-Century Milan

Grace Harpster, Assistant Professor of Art History, Georgia State University

Mapmaking has long been tied to the development of the state in sixteenth-century Europe. This phenomenon, however, was not just the purview of civic surveyors and royal cosmographers. Archbishop Carlo Borromeo (1538–84), one of the most zealous advocates of Catholic reform, relied heavily on cartography as he strove to implement the reforms of the Council of Trent (1545–63) in his home diocese of Milan. This seminar examines Borromeo’s rich corpus of manuscript maps and cartographic sketches to address the stakes of cartography in spiritual, rather than state, government.

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About the Premodern Studies Seminar Series

This Center for Renaissance Studies Seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share work-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies.

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