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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period - Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period - Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediavistischer Forschung. Beihefte
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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.
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