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Maps and travel in the Middle Ages and the early modern period : knowledge, imagination, and visual culture /

The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baumgärtner, Ingrid (Editor ), Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh (Editor ), Kogman-Appel, Katrin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Mittelalter. Beihefte ; Bd. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Maps and Travel: An Introduction / Baumgärtner, Ingrid / Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh / Kogman-Appel, Katrin
  • Part I: Historical Space
  • Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch / Kupfer, Marcia
  • The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) / Strickland, Debra Higgs
  • Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land / Arad, Pnina
  • Part II: Use and Reception
  • Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts / Baumgärtner, Ingrid
  • Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia / Kogman-Appel, Katrin
  • Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle / Gautier Dalché, Patrick
  • Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books / Serchuk, Camille
  • Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces
  • The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World / Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal
  • Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll / Sarfati, Rachel
  • Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio's 'Madonna di Loreto' / Unger, Daniel M.
  • Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) / Dora, Veronica della
  • Part IV: Word and Images
  • Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits / Silver, Larry
  • Fra Niccolò Guidalotto's City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople / Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh
  • How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps / Sáenz-López Pérez, Sandra
  • Index of Toponyms and Locations
  • Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Maps and travel: an introduction / Ingrid Baumgärtner, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Katrin Kogman-Appel
  • Traveling the Mappa Mundi: readerly transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch / Marcia Kupfer
  • The bestiary on the Hereford world map (c. 1300) / Debra Higgs Strickland
  • Cultural landscape in Christian and Jewish maps of the holy land / Pnina Arad
  • Winds and continents: concepts for structuring the world and its parts / Ingrid Baumgärtner
  • Fictive travel and mapmaking in fourteenth-century Iberia / Katrin Kogman-Appel
  • Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XV siècle / Patrick Gautier Dalché
  • Around the world: borders and frames in two sixteenth-century Norman map books / Camille Serchuk
  • The travels of the rabbis and the rabbinic horizons of the inhabited world / Eyal Ben-Eliyahu
  • Real and fictive travels to the holy land as painted in the Florence scroll / Rachel Sarfati
  • Between Nazareth and Loreto: the role of the stone bricks in Caravaggio's 'Madonna di Loreto' / Daniel M. Unger
  • Sacred topographies and the optics of truth: Vasilii Grigorovich Barskii's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) / Veronic della Dora
  • Antwerp civic portraits / Larry Silver
  • Fra Niccolò Guidalotto's city view, nautical atlas and book of memories: cartography and propaganda between Venice and Constantinople / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
  • How to represent the new world when one is not Andrea Mantegna: sovereigns in the Americas on sixteenth-century maps / Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez