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

Preface\nContents\nOriginal Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume\nPart I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World\nChapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages\nChapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts\nChapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps\nChapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices\nPart II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land\nChapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden\nChapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces\nChapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land\nPart III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power\nChapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration\nChapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases\nChapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600\nIndex of Toponyms and Locations\nIndex of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples\nIndex of Modern Authors