Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- System of Citation and Abbreviation -- Catalogues and Reference Works -- Libraries and Other Map Collections -- Introduction -- 1. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Atlases Relevant to History -- Claudius Ptolemy and "Ancient Geography" -- The Comparison of Old and New Geography -- World Atlases: Vessels of Diffuse History -- "One Size Fits All" -- Nouvelle metode de geogra.e historique [sic] -- "Ancient Geography, Sacred and Secular" -- History Everywhere and Nowhere -- Notes -- 2. The Middle Ages in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Maps -- Bygone Kingdoms -- The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy -- Where Is Austrasia? -- Austrasia Foreshadows Habsburg Austria -- The Rest of France -- The Empire of Charlemagne -- Mementos of a Shifting Province -- Southern Netherlanders -- Poster Maps: English Battles and Far-Flung French Royalty -- Outside Northern Europe -- Frisia: Tidal Flats and Historical Cartography -- The Foreshadowing of Historical Atlases to 1700 -- Notes -- 3. From 1700, New Departures -- Atlases Called "Historical" -- Moving on from Ancient Geography -- Innovative but Unrealized Atlases -- Atlases Reflecting the Course of Written History -- Universal History in Sixty-six Maps -- A Disconnected Fragment -- The First Fully Published Sequential Atlas -- The History of France in Sequential Maps -- The Lost Atlas of Johann Christoph Gatterer -- Notes -- 4. Eighteenth-Century Maps of the Middle Ages -- Single Maps and Small Sets -- Isolated Scenes -- Barbarian Invasions -- Carolingian Sidelights -- Europe as Seen By . . . -- Poster or Catalogue Maps -- Divisions and Limits of Medieval Lands -- "Outside Europe" -- Byzantines, Crusaders -- Asiatic Peoples -- European Travelers to Asia -- Getting It Wrong -- Beginnings without Continuations: The History of France -- Other Countries at Medieval Moments.

Historical Atlases -- Delisle's Unrealized Outline of History -- The Succession of Great Empires -- World Chronicles in Maps -- The History of France Graphically Unfolded -- A Geography of the Migration Age -- Isolated Initiatives: Beaurain, Tomka Szászky, Andrews -- Innovative Atlases and Perplexing Maps -- Notes -- 5. Historical Atlases Come of Age -- The Midas Touch of Émmanuel de Las Cases -- Kruse's Europe at 100-Year Intervals -- The Historical Atlas Still Unknown and Disavowed -- Scholars in a Time of Ferment: C. G. Koch and C. Malte-Brun -- Minor Works on the Sequential Plan -- Lithography and Other Innovations of the 1820s -- Ambitious History from the Weimar Geographical Institute -- The Burgeoning of National Atlases -- A Creative Burst: 1829-30 -- Edward Quin: End of an Era in Maps for History -- Conservatism and Change in the 1830s -- A New Format for Comprehensive Historical Atlases -- Karl Spruner's Historisch-geographischer Hand-Atlas (1837-46) -- Packing Much in Little -- Maps for History Attain Maturity -- Notes -- 6. Nineteenth-Century Maps of the Middle Ages -- An Estrangement Not Yet Healed -- A Canon of Maps for Medieval Europe -- Medievalia in the Atlas Lesage -- Tracks for Crusaders -- Medieval and Modern in the Last Sequential Atlases of Universal History -- The Middle Ages in Maps of National History -- Large Atlases Warmly Welcoming the Middle Ages -- Spruner's Hand-Atlas and the Problem of Geographic Order -- To Condense so as to Teach -- Honorably Mentioned -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Map Types and Written Glosses -- Recapitulation -- Notes -- Catalogue of Maps and Atlases -- Historical Atlases and Maps -- Atlases with Historical Additions -- H, M, G-Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- H, M, G-Eighteenth Century -- H, M, G-Nineteenth Century -- Ancient and Ecclesiastical History.

A-Ancient, Sacred, and Comparative Atlases (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- E-Ecclesiastical and Sacred Collections (Exclusively) 550 Other Noteworthy Works with and without Maps -- Other Noteworthy Works with and without Maps -- O-Other Relevant Atlases and Maps -- B-Books, Usually without Maps -- Index of Maps and Atlases -- Index of Secondary Literature Cited in the Notes -- Subject Index.