IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1307: Mappings, III: Mapping Techniques Then and Now: Why, How, and Whether
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Paul D. A. Harvey, Department of History, Durham University |
| Paper 1307-a | Why Maps?, And When?: 15th-Century Terminology in Landscape Descriptions (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1307-b | Textual Maps or Textual Diagrams?: Determining Directions in the Texts of the Czech Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1307-c | The Political Life of the Arbor balsami on the Hereford Mappa mundi (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Mapping Techniques Then and Now: Why, How and Whether 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. This session focuses, in very different ways, on why, how, and whether maps from the later Middle Ages came to complement, even replace, textual descriptions of the land. Current digital technology can clarify, among other things, how medieval mapmakers worked and what their maps might have contributed that texts could not. |