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This study applies the methodologies of literary geography to the unique contents of a codex known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced in provincial Herefordshire by a scribe whose literary generation was wiped out in the Black Death of 1348-51. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional texts, political songs and fabliaux, saints' lives, courtesy literature, bible narratives, tr...

Tracing the map's early development into an emblem of the state, this text charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon, and chronicles the specific technologies by which the map is capable of accessing, organizing and re-orienting a tremendous range of information.