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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.
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.
Angesichts aktueller Diskussionen uber den Kulturraum Europa
unternehmen es die Autoren des Bandes, die
kartographisch-geographischen Grundlagen des Mittelalters zu
erfassen und die kulturwissenschaftlich determinierten Funktionen
des Kartierens am Beispiel Europa zu erlautern. Ziel ist es,
kartographische Darstellungspraktiken in historiographische und
literarische Wissens- und Uberlieferungskontexte einzubinden und
den Kontinent als historische Grosse mit unterschiedlichen
Deutungspotentialen zu begreifen. Aus dem Inhalt: Ingrid
Baumgartner: Europa in der Kartographie des Mittelalters.
Reprasentationen Grenzen Paradigmen REPRASENTATIONEN Alfred
Stuckelberger: Das Europabild bei Ptolemaios Hartmut Kugler: Europa
pars quarta. Der Teil und das Ganze im Liber Floridus Patrick
Gautier Dalche: Representations geographiques de lEurope
septentrionale, centrale et orientale au moyen age Ingrid
Baumgartner: Graphische Gestalt und Signifikanz. Europa in den
Weltkarten des Beatus von Liebana und des Ranulf Higden EUROPA UND
DER ORIENT Paul D. A. Harvey: Europa und das Heilige Land Andreas
Kaplony: Ist Europa eine Insel? Europa auf der rechteckigen
Weltkarte des arabischen "Book of Curiosities" Anna-Dorothee von
den Brincken: Europa um 1320 auf zwei Weltkarten suditalienischer
Provenienz. Die Karte zur Chronologia magna des Paulinus Minorita
und die Douce-Karte GRENZZIEHUNGEN UND GRENZERFAHRUNGEN Evelyn
Edson: Dacia ubi et Gothia. Die nordostliche Grenze Europas in der
mittelalterlichen Kartographie Patricia Licini: European and
Ottoman Landmarks from a Portolan Chart at the Time of Enea Silvio
Piccolomini Stefan Schroder: Grenzerfahrungen. Mittelalterliche
Reisende an den Randern Europas Margriet Hoogvliet: The Wonders of
Europe. From the Middle Ages to the sixteenth Century PARADIGMEN
Andrew Gow: Empirical Empire. Eurocentrism and Cosmopolitism in the
"last" Mappamundi (Fra Mauro) Piero Falchetta: The Use of Portolan
Charts in European Navigation during the Middle Ages Martina
Stercken: Regionale Identitat im spatmittelalterlichen Europa.
Kartographien der Eidgenossenschaf
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