Bio
LauraLee Brott is a specialist in European medieval art, with specific focus on eleventh and twelfth-century maps. She is an editor for “Virtual Mappa Project: Digital Editions of Early Medieval Maps of the World,” an online catalog that provides translations of medieval maps. Dr. Brott is also a freelance research assistant, cartographer and artist. She is joining UW Stevens-Point as an associate lecturer for Art Appreciation and Global Art History I.
Recent Publications
2024 “The Medieval Map Facsimile,” Reading Medieval Sources: Medieval Maps. Editors: Felicitas Schmieder, Marianne O’Doherty and Stefan Schröder. Brill. (In press)
2024 “Locating Earthly Paradise,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Editors: Constance M. Furey, Joel LeMon, Brian Matz, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski. De Gruyter. (In press)
2022 “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine,” The Portolan: The Journal of the Washington Map Society, Issue 113, Spring 2022.
2020 “Reframing the World: The Materiality of Two Mappaemundi in BL Add. MS 28681,” co-authored with Heather Wacha, Imago Mundi: The International Journal in the History of Cartography, Vol. 72, No. 2.
2018 “The Geography of Devotion in the British Library Psalter,” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, Vol. 53, No. 3.
Selected Awards
2023 The J. B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography
2021 The Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography
2021 Charles T. Wood Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America