Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps

Titel: Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2022
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (386 p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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ISBN: 9781501516016 ; 9781501523816 ; 9781501516047
Zusammenfassung: 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, illustrating 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.