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

by Ingrid Baumgärtner (Author), Daniel Gneckow (Editor), Anna Hollenbach (Editor)

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.

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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.

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

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