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.
Author(s): Ingrid Baumgärtner
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 400
City: Berlin
9781501516016
9781501516016
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
