Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501523816)

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.

Author: Ingrid Baumg舐tner
ISBN-10: 1501523813
ISBN-13: 9781501523816
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2022
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d