Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture

Published by De Gruyter 2019

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

Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture

Edited by: Ingrid Baumgärtner , Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby and Katrin Kogman-Appel

Volume 9 in the series Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110588774

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Ingrid Baumgärtner, Kassel, Germany; Nirit Ben Arye-Debby, Beer Sheva, Israel and Katrin Kogman-Appel, Münster, Germany.

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"Der Bandbesticht durch die durchgehend hohe Qualität der Beiträge, auf die hier nur
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doch kunstgeschichtlich dominierte Band bietet eine Vielzahl interessanter Beiträge,
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Gerda Brunnlechner in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 47/2 (2020), 253-254

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Maps and Travel: An Introduction Ingrid Baumgärtner, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby and Katrin Kogman-Appel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Historical Space
Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch Marcia Kupfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) Debra Higgs Strickland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land Pnina Arad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Part II: Use and Reception
Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts Ingrid Baumgärtner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia Katrin Kogman-Appel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XV^e siècle Patrick Gautier Dalché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books Camille Serchuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces
The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World Eyal Ben-Eliyahu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll Rachel Sarfati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ Daniel M. Unger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) Veronica della Dora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Part IV: Word and Images
Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits Larry Silver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index of Toponyms and Locations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and research students in the fields of medieval history, cultural history, art history, cartography, and literature
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 412
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 140
Keywords: Mapping; travel literature; cartography

eBook

Published: March 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110588774

Hardcover

Published: March 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110587333