TY - JOUR
T1 - Judges as Mapmakers
T2 - How to Create an Estate Map in Early-Nineteenth-Century Portugal
AU - Pinto, Sandra M G
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04666%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04666%2F2020/PT#
UIDB/04666/2020
UIDP/04666/2020
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0026
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In 1806, High Court judge Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho e Britto published the first Portuguese manual devoted to making property-register books. In this, he advocated a curious method for surveying and drawing estate maps, one based on his own experience as a mapmaker. Britto’s aim in compiling the manual was to instruct other judges in the map-making techniques needed for registering property. In this article, Britto’s maps and method of map making, as articulated in his manual, offer a window into the practice of estate mapping in early nineteenth-century Portugal. They also convey an idea that was controversial in its time: that judges themselves should be involved in the production of estate maps. While estate mapping was common across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Portugal they were a rare phenomenon, hence the scarcity of these maps in archives, and the uniqueness of Britto’s example.
AB - In 1806, High Court judge Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho e Britto published the first Portuguese manual devoted to making property-register books. In this, he advocated a curious method for surveying and drawing estate maps, one based on his own experience as a mapmaker. Britto’s aim in compiling the manual was to instruct other judges in the map-making techniques needed for registering property. In this article, Britto’s maps and method of map making, as articulated in his manual, offer a window into the practice of estate mapping in early nineteenth-century Portugal. They also convey an idea that was controversial in its time: that judges themselves should be involved in the production of estate maps. While estate mapping was common across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Portugal they were a rare phenomenon, hence the scarcity of these maps in archives, and the uniqueness of Britto’s example.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124021533&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960023
DO - 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960023
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-5694
VL - 73
SP - 179
EP - 204
JO - Imago Mundi
JF - Imago Mundi
IS - 2
ER -