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

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

Baumgärtner, Ingrid
Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit
Kogman-Appel, Katrin

Hardcover

Series: Mittelalter. Perspektiven Mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Book 9

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110587335
ISBN13: 9783110587333
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Mar 4 2019
Pages: 421
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

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.

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