Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript by Van Duzer, Chet

Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004304536)

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Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript by Van Duzer, Chet

Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript

$222.00
Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript by Van Duzer, Chet

Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript

$222.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Apocalyptic Cartography, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse an unstudied fifteenth-century German manuscript that contains a rich collection of strikingly original world maps. These include early thematic maps and maps illustrating the events of the Apocalypse.

Author: Chet Van Duzer,Ilya Dines
ISBN-10: 9004304533
ISBN-13: 9789004304536
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2015
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d
By Chet Van Duzer
By Chet Van Duzer
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Chet Van Duzer has held research fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library and Library of Congress, and has published widely on medieval and Renaissance cartography. His book The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550 is forthcoming from the British Library.

Ilya Dines, Ph.D. (2008), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. He is an expert on manuscript studies, medieval encyclopedism and bestiaries, particularly Third Family bestiaries, and has published extensively in these areas.

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