Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

• Autore principale: Baumgärtner, Ingrid (auth)
• Altri autori: Gneckow, Daniel (Redattore), Hollenbach, Anna (Redattore), Landgrebe, Phillip (Redattore)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
• Serie: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
• Soggetti: Literary studies: general; Medieval history; Cartography, map-making & projections; Travel Literature Cartography Medieval Culture Early Modern Culture
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Riassunto

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.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (386 p.)

ISBN

9781501516016
9781501523816
9781501516047

Accesso

Open Access