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

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

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

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

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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 travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501523816
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 06/06/2022
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , #34
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe, Kassel University, Germany.
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