Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Ingrid Baumgärtner
Jun 2022 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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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.
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 trave...
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Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe, Kassel University, Germany.
Ingrid Baumgärtner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe, Kassel University, Germany.
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