Mapping Narrations - Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

by Ingrid Baumgrtner and Ingrid Baumgärtner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501523813
• ISBN13: 9781501523816
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary