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, illustrating the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and trave...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
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| Series: | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | 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, illustrating the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (386 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781501516016 9781501523816 9781501516047 |
| Access: | Open Access |