Cartography In Antiquity And The Middle Ages
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Cartography In Antiquity And The Middle Ages
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Author : Richard Unger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-08-31
Cartography In Antiquity And The Middle Ages written by Richard Unger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-31 with History categories.
There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.
Illustrating The Phaenomena
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Author : Elly Dekker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013
Illustrating The Phaenomena written by Elly Dekker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.
Mapping Medieval Geographies
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Author : Keith D. Lilley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-09
Mapping Medieval Geographies written by Keith D. Lilley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with History categories.
Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those 'imagined geographies' that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.
Cartography In Antiquity And The Middle Ages
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Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
Cartography In Antiquity And The Middle Ages written by Richard J. A. Talbert and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.
Terra Incognita
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Author : Alfred Hiatt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Terra Incognita written by Alfred Hiatt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans. But to allow for the possibility of such lands and races raised troubling questions: Was it truly impossible to reach the underside of the earth? And, if so, how could its inhabitants receive the word of God? In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Instead, Hiatt finds, the idea of people on the other side of the Earth provided a potent and malleable symbol for political theorists, satirists, scholars, and poets--as well as for map makers. Terra Incognita is, in the end, the history of a non-place, of lands conjured by the scientific imagination, which nevertheless drove exploration, and which continued to shape the world map, even as they slowly vanished from it.
Mapping Time And Space
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Author : Evelyn Edson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Mapping Time And Space written by Evelyn Edson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Until recently, medieval maps were often looked upon as quaint, amusing, and quite simply wrong. By comparison the best examples of modern cartography appear to offer a much more accurate record of the world. However, as Professor Edson makes clear in this stimulating book, when seeking the meaning and purpose of maps in the Middle Ages, one cannot assume that they were used for the same purposes or had the same meaning as they do today. In fact, the differences in structure and content give us an intriguing insight into how medieval mapmakers and readers saw their world. By a close study of the context in which the mapmakers produced their work, it can be shown that they were often striving to present -- and make sense of -- a world picture that naturally incorporated key 'events' from the past, at the same time showing a narrative of human spiritual development from the Creation to the Last Judgment. -- From publisher's description.
The Medieval Peutinger Map
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Author : Emily Albu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-29
The Medieval Peutinger Map written by Emily Albu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-29 with History categories.
This book challenges the Peutinger Map's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts.
The History Of Cartography
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Author : John Brian Harley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The History Of Cartography written by John Brian Harley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Cartography categories.
When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.--Amazon.com.
The Idea And Ideal Of The Town Between Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Gian Pietro Brogiolo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1999
The Idea And Ideal Of The Town Between Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages written by Gian Pietro Brogiolo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This volume collects papers by distinguished European scholars, on the changing perception of the city in the period of transition from the Roman World to the Early Middle Ages. Central themes are the persistence of classical ideals of urban life, within a rapidly-changing world, and the emergence of a new ideal of the city that was specifically Christian.
Geography In The Middle Ages
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Author : George Herbert Tinley Kimble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Geography In The Middle Ages written by George Herbert Tinley Kimble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.