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

Baumgärtner, Ingrid

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1501523813 ISBN 13 : 9781501523816

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2022

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Ingrid Baumgärtner is Professor of Medieval History at Kassel University (Germany). Her research focuses on spatial history, gender, and regional history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501523813
• ISBN 13: 9781501523816
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Gneckow Daniel, Hollenbach Anna, Landgrebe Phillip
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne