Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps
Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Research i
Hollenbach, Anna / Landgrebe, Phillip
Erschienen am
01.06.2022
Beschreibung
This volume offers the authors 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.
Autorenportrait
Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe, Kassel University, Germany.