Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture)

by Ingrid Baumgartner

Daniel Gneckow (Editor), Anna Hollenbach (Editor), and Phillip Landgrebe (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1501516019
  • ISBN13 9781501516016
  • Publish Date 6 June 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint De Gruyter