IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 707: Mappings, III: Practical/Political Mapping

Organiser:	Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast
Moderator/Chair:	Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen
Paper 707-a	Ottonian Mental Maps?: Border Descriptions in 10th-Century Charters (Language: English) Thomas Wozniak, Institut für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philipps-Universität, Marburg Index terms: Art History - General, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 707-b	Klaudyán’s Map of Bohemia from 1518 and Its Representation of Roads (Language: English) Tomáš Klimek, Manuscriptorium Digital Library, National Library of the Czech Republic, Praha Index terms: Art History - General, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 707-c	The Place of Cartography in Late Medieval English Civic Culture (Language: English) Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast Index terms: Art History - General, Political Thought, Social History
Abstract	'Practical/Political Mapping' falls under the 'Mappings' rubric that comprises it and two other sessions in a proposed series that aims to advance studies in the history of cartography. Papers in the 'Practical/Political Mapping' session link functional representation to sociopolitical needs to show why and how select maps from the 10th-16th centuries conceptualize and configure space for civic and/or political reasons.