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Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps : Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period /
This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and tra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kalamazoo, MI :
Medieval Institute Publications,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ;
34 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume
- Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World
- Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages
- Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts
- Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps
- Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices
- Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land
- Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden
- Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces
- Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land
- Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power
- Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration
- Chapter 9 Battista Agnese's Portolan Atlases
- Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600
- Index of Toponyms and Locations
- Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples
- Index of Modern Authors