Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps - Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ingrid Baumgartner, Ingrid Baumgärtner
• Assisted by: Daniel Gneckow (Editor), Ann Hollenbach (Editor), Anna Hollenbach (Editor), Phillip Landgrebe (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2022
• EAN: 9781501523816
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-2381-6
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 30 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 804 g
• Illustrations: 127 col. ill.
• Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; Research in Medieval and Early; Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 34
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages