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Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps

Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Ingrid Baumgärtner author Daniel Gneckow editor Anna Hollenbach editor Phillip Landgrebe editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:6th Jun '22

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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.

ISBN: 9781501523816

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 954g

400 pages