An atlas always mixes typographic and pictorial or cartographic text - that is the sole defining requirement.
But cartographic incorporation was only part of the process.
It is as if the topography of a region familiar to all has been subjected to a new cartographic representation.
Morphological analysis coupled with cartographic representation thus provides a way of conceptualizing, measuring and interpreting the changing medieval urban landscape.
He is particularly good at the use of cartographic sources, both in locating and interpreting them.
In recent years the examination of cartographic practices and materials has been fertile ground for the study of colonial regimes.
The military aspects are discussed with a commendable balance of description and analysis, and battles are illustrated by maps that are models of cartographic clarity.
The material in these sections is based not merely on secondary published sources but on a range of original documentary and cartographic material.
