Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture

Author:   Ingrid Baumgärtner ,  Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby ,  Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9783110587333


Pages:   421
Publication Date:   04 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture


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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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Author:   Ingrid Baumgärtner ,  Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby ,  Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.104kg
ISBN:  

9783110587333


ISBN 10:   3110587335
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   04 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Der Bandbesticht durch die durchgehend hohe Qualitat der Beitrage, auf die hier nur einzelne Schlaglichter geworfen werden koennen. [...] Der letztlich dann doch kunstgeschichtlich dominierte Band bietet eine Vielzahl interessanter Beitrage, die hoffentlich zu weiteren, vertiefenden Forschungen anregen. Gerda Brunnlechner in: Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung 47/2 (2020), 253-254


""Der Bandbesticht durch die durchgehend hohe Qualität der Beiträge, auf die hier nur einzelne Schlaglichter geworfen werden können. [...] Der letztlich dann doch kunstgeschichtlich dominierte Band bietet eine Vielzahl interessanter Beiträge, die hoffentlich zu weiteren, vertiefenden Forschungen anregen."" Gerda Brunnlechner in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 47/2 (2020), 253-254


"""Der Bandbesticht durch die durchgehend hohe Qualität der Beiträge, auf die hier nureinzelne Schlaglichter geworfen werden können. [...] Der letztlich danndoch kunstgeschichtlich dominierte Band bietet eine Vielzahl interessanter Beiträge, die hoffentlich zu weiteren, vertiefenden Forschungen anregen.""Gerda Brunnlechner in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 47/2 (2020), 253-254"


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Ingrid Baumgärtner, Kassel, Germany; Nirit Ben Arye-Debby, Beer Sheva, Israel and Katrin Kogman-Appel, Münster, Germany.

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