The document discusses the concept of "autocartography", which is creating a map-like composition to write one's autobiography. It provides examples of medieval "mappae mundi", or maps of the world, as models for autocartography since they incorporated personal and cultural elements rather than just geography. The document then summarizes several specific medieval maps and their features, and provides questions to help structure an individual's autocartography process by reflecting on important people, places, stories and histories from their life.

1. Autocartography: Mapping the Self Richard Smyth, Ph.D. Invent-L Conference 2007: Imaging Place University of Florida 24 February 2007

8. Psalter Map

10. Psalter Map: detail of Gog & Magog

11. Psalter Map: detail of the monstrous races of Africa

13. Hereford Mappa Mundi

15. Hereford Mappa Mundi: details

17. Genoese Map of the World

19. Rudimentum Novitiorum

31. Autocartography is Mystory “ Mystory is a holistic practice, designed as a way to compose in four (more or less) discourses. It is a cognitive map of its maker’s ‘psychogeography’” (Ulmer 81, emphasis mine)