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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period : Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture / ed. by Ingrid Baumgärtner, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Katrin Kogman-Appel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; 9Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (IX, 412 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110587333
  • 9783110587418
  • 9783110588774
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Maps and Travel: An Introduction -- Part I: Historical Space -- Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch -- The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) -- Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land -- Part II: Use and Reception -- Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts -- Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia -- Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle -- Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books -- Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces -- The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World -- Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll -- Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ -- Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) -- Part IV: Word and Images -- Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits -- Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople -- How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps -- Index of Toponyms and Locations -- Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures -- Index of Modern Authors
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Maps and Travel: An Introduction -- Part I: Historical Space -- Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch -- The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) -- Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land -- Part II: Use and Reception -- Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts -- Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia -- Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle -- Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books -- Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces -- The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World -- Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll -- Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ -- Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) -- Part IV: Word and Images -- Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits -- Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople -- How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps -- Index of Toponyms and Locations -- Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures -- Index of Modern Authors

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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