Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit (Hrsg.) / Kogman-Appel, Katrin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-058733-3
- EAN: 9783110587333
- Produktnummer: 27099470
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.2 cm x D3.2 cm 1'110 g
- Abbildungen: 140 col. ill.
- Reihenbandnummer: 9
- Gewicht: 1110
Über den Autor
Ingrid Baumgärtner, Kassel, Germany; Nirit Ben Arye-Debby, Beer Sheva, Israel and Katrin Kogman-Appel, Münster, Germany.
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