Welt in Karten: Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten im MittelalterDie

Baumgärtner, Ingrid

doi:10.1515/mial-2017-0005

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Die Welt in Karten : Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten im Mittelalter

This paper addresses the changes and continuities within the wide range of cartographic practices that existed in the Middle Ages. Following introductory thoughts on methodological issues, the text focuses on three different types of maps, all of which represent the world in its entirety: schematic maps, world maps and nautical charts. Within different texts, as independent artifacts or as atlases, these maps were employed for diverse purposes, such as the representation of fundamental principles, of encyclopaedic knowledge or of nautical surveys. At least from the twelfth century on, the different genres existed side by side – with adjustments of content and form occurring in each. By relating spacial order and historical content medieval maps produce meaning and assert the significance of the knowledge they display. The literal and philosophical world-views they provide make them valuable sources in modern education.

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Translated title:: The world in maps : changes and continuities in the Middle Ages (English)
Published in:: Das Mittelalter : Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung : Zeitschrift des Mediävistenverbandes
Vol. 22, No. 1 (2017), p. 55-74
References:: Mapping narrations - narrating maps : concepts of the world in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
(2022), p. 3-22
Volume:: 22
No.:: 1
Publication date:: 2017
URN:: urn:nbn:de:0307-20230315-000-3
DOI:: 10.1515/mial-2017-0005
Language:: German
Type of Resource:: Text
Extent:: 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 55-74, 7,87 MB) : 6 Illustrationen, 1 Textdatei (PDF)
Keywords:: Historische Kartografie^GND; Geschichte 500-1500; mittelalterliche Kartographie und Historiographie; schematische Karten; Portolankarte^GND; Mappa mundi^GND; mittelalterliche geografische Bildsprache; historical cartography; history 500-1500; medieval cartography and historiography; schematic maps; Portolan charts; medieval geographical imagery
DDC subject of DNB:: 900 History
DDC subject of DNB:: 520 Astronomy & allied sciences
BC Systematics:: B.3.c Middle Ages
BC Systematics:: J.1 Atlas Cartography / General Topics
BC Systematics:: B.2.b Regional History of Cartography / Oceans and Seas
URL:: https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-20190909662
Link to Raw Object:: https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/11301/BaumgaertnerWeltKarten.pdf
Hosting institution:: Universität Kassel
Statement of responsibility:: Ingrid Baumgärtner
Publications:: Published in: Uta Goerlitz and Meike Hensel-Grobe (eds.), Mediävistik und Schule im Dialog (= Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung 22, issue 1), Berlin 2017 (2017-06-28), pp. 55-74
Publications:: Other version: for an English version of this article, see Ingrid Baumgärtner (2022), Chapter 1. The world in maps: change and continuity in the Middle Ages, in: Mapping narrations - narrating maps. Concepts of the world in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (= Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; 34), edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, and Phillip Landgrebe, Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, 2022, pp. 3-22 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516016-001)
Publications:: Additional DOI for this article (in KOBRA, the publication server of the University of Kassel): 10.17170/kobra-20190909662 (= https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-20190909662)