| Description |
ix, 412 pages : illustrations (colour), maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN |
9783110587333 hardback |
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3110587335 hardback |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9783110587333 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Maps and travel: an introduction / Ingrid Baumgärtner, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Part I. Historical space. Traveling the Mappa Mundi: readerly transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch / Marcia Kupfer -- The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) / Debra Higgs Strickland -- Cultural landscape in Christian and Jewish maps of the Holy Land / Pnina Arad -- Part II. Use and reception. Winds and continents: concepts for structuring the world and its parts / Ingrid Baumgärtner -- Fictive travel and mapmaking in fourteenth-century Iberia / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle / Patrick Gautier Dalché -- Around the world: borders and frames in two sixteenth-century Norman map books / Camille Serchuk -- Part III. Travel into sacred spaces. The travels of the rabbis and the rabbinic horizons of the inhabited world / Eyal Ben-Eliyahu -- Real and fictive travels to the Holy Land as painted in the Florence scroll / Rachel Sarfati -- Between Nazareth and Loreto: the role of the stone bricks in Caravaggio's 'Madonna di Loreto' / Daniel M. Unger -- Sacred topographies and the optics of truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) / Veronica della Dora -- Part IV. Word and images. Antwerp civic self-portraits / Larry Silver -- Fra Niccolò Guidalotto's City view, nautical atlas and book of memories: cartography and propaganda between Venice and Constantinople / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby -- How to represent the New World when one Is not Andrea Mantegna: sovereigns in the Americas on sixteenth-century maps / Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez. |
| Summary |
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge.The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
In English, with 1 contribution in French. |
| Series |
Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; Band 9.
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| Library Class |
Geography D8
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| Subject |
Cartography -- History.
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Cartography -- Social aspects.
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Maps -- Social aspects.
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Travel -- History.
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Cartography -- History -- To 1500.
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| Other Author |
Baumgärtner, Ingrid, editor.
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Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh, editor.
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Kogman-Appel, Katrin, editor.
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