IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1310: Mappings, IV: Reading and Translating Medieval Space
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
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| Organiser: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Paper 1310-a | E-Mapping Medieval Iberia: Two Different Approaches (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 1310-b | Time and Space According to Orosius?: The Velletri/Borgia World Map, 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Theology |
| Abstract | Reading and Translating Medieval Space falls under the rubric 'Mappings' that also comprises other sessions in a proposed series that the organizers hope will become a regular feature of the conference and, in so doing, advance the study of the history of cartography and space. Medievalists can tap into a wide range of sources to examine the perception and representation of space in our period, but these can be difficult for us to understand in the proper, medieval sense. On the other hand, certain means that we tend to consider essential to spatial representation (e.g., modern mapping techniques) did not exist in this period. The papers of this session will use different approaches to read more or less well-known sources with a methodologically fresh eye to approach the question: how possible is it to 'translate' medieval sources into our contemporary descriptive and cartographic languages and conventions of spatial representation? |