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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture

by Katrin Kogman-AppelIngrid Baumgärtner and Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
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Age range: 22+ years old Publication Date: 04/03/2019

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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.

ISBN:
9783110587333
9783110587333
Category:
Literary studies: classical
Age range:
22+ years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-03-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Walter\de Gruyter#GmbH
Country of origin:
Germany
Dimensions (mm):
240x170mm
Weight:
1.1kg

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