I have a longstanding interest in the extent to which people throughout history could access cultural production: books, music and so forth. Essentially, the economics of cultural life. So when I was poking around the University of Chicago Press website last month (previously), I was very interested to stumble across a book that came out last year: Genevieve Carlton’s*Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy (Amazon, iBooks), which examines the ways in which private individuals had access to maps.*As you can imagine, very relevant to my interests.It’s certainly not the only book relevant to those interests. There’s Susan Schulten’s and Martin Brückner’s work,*of course; and I should also take a look at Christine Marie Petto’s*When France Was King of Cartography: The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France (Amazon, iBooks). Expensive monographs all; methinks I need a university library card.
Previously:*The Social Life of Maps.
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