ISBN:
9781501516016
,
9781501523816
,
9781501516047
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (386 p.)
Series Statement:
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Keywords:
Literary studies: general
;
Medieval history
;
Cartography, map-making & projections
Abstract:
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, illustrating 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
Note:
English
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