| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 412 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; Band 9 |
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Mittelalter. Beihefte ; Bd. 9
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Maps and Travel: An Introduction / Baumgärtner, Ingrid / Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh / Kogman-Appel, Katrin -- Part I: Historical Space -- Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch / Kupfer, Marcia -- The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) / Strickland, Debra Higgs -- Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land / Arad, Pnina -- Part II: Use and Reception -- Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts / Baumgärtner, Ingrid -- Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia / Kogman-Appel, Katrin -- Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle / Gautier Dalché, Patrick -- Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books / Serchuk, Camille -- Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces -- The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World / Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal -- Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll / Sarfati, Rachel -- Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio's 'Madonna di Loreto' / Unger, Daniel M. -- Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) / Dora, Veronica della -- Part IV: Word and Images -- Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits / Silver, Larry -- Fra Niccolò Guidalotto's City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople / Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh -- How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps / Sáenz-López Pérez, Sandra -- Index of Toponyms and Locations -- Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures -- Index of Modern Authors |
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Maps and travel: an introduction / Ingrid Baumgärtner, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Traveling the Mappa Mundi: readerly transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch / Marcia Kupfer -- The bestiary on the Hereford world map (c. 1300) / Debra Higgs Strickland -- Cultural landscape in Christian and Jewish maps of the holy land / Pnina Arad -- Winds and continents: concepts for structuring the world and its parts / Ingrid Baumgärtner -- Fictive travel and mapmaking in fourteenth-century Iberia / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XV siècle / Patrick Gautier Dalché -- Around the world: borders and frames in two sixteenth-century Norman map books / Camille Serchuk -- The travels of the rabbis and the rabbinic horizons of the inhabited world / Eyal Ben-Eliyahu -- Real and fictive travels to the holy land as painted in the Florence scroll / Rachel Sarfati -- Between Nazareth and Loreto: the role of the stone bricks in Caravaggio's 'Madonna di Loreto' / Daniel M. Unger -- Sacred topographies and the optics of truth: Vasilii Grigorovich Barskii's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) / Veronic della Dora -- Antwerp civic portraits / Larry Silver -- Fra Niccolò Guidalotto's city view, nautical atlas and book of memories: cartography and propaganda between Venice and Constantinople / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby -- How to represent the new world when one is not Andrea Mantegna: sovereigns in the Americas on sixteenth-century maps / Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cartography -- History.
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Cartography -- Social aspects
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Maps -- Social aspects
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Travel -- History
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Cartography -- History -- To 1500
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REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers.
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TRAVEL -- Maps & Road Atlases.
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Cartography
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Travel
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baumgärtner, Ingrid, editor.
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Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh, editor.
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Kogman-Appel, Katrin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110587418 |
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3110587416 |
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9783110588774 |
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3110588773 |
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