Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps. Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern World. Ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, and Phillip Landgrebe (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; XXXIV / Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; LXXXII).

Baumgärtner, Ingrid:

ISBN 10: 1501523813 / ISBN 13: 9781501523816

Published by Berlin, Walter de Gruyter,, 2022

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XIV, 386 S.; mit 127 Farbabb. Auf d. Fußschnitt als "Mängelexemplar" gekennzeichnet, sonst neuwertiges Ex. // 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. ISBN: 9781501523816 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 928.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps. Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern World. Ed. by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, and Phillip Landgrebe (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; XXXIV / Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; LXXXII).
• Publisher: Berlin, Walter de Gruyter,
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501523813
• ISBN 13: 9781501523816
• Binding: Gr.-8°, Ppbd.
• Weight: 928 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mittelalterliche Geschichte

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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