IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1738: Mappings, III: (Re)contextualising Maps
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn |
| Paper 1738-a | Explanations of Grid-Maps: Johannes Poloner, Maurice Paris, and Marino Sanudo (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1738-b | Expert Culture in Regional Cartography, 1500-1650 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 1738-c | Using GIS to Illustrate and Understand the Influence of St Æthelthryth of Ely (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | The corpus of preserved medieval maps - and more broadly the geographical knowledge they present - can be contextualized in very different ways in order to help us better understand that knowledge. This session's speakers demonstrate multiple methods of unlocking that knowledge: through the interpretation of medieval textual evidence, by connecting the people behind the maps to medieval geographical strategies, and via current digital technology. The papers in this session deal with maps that are only described in travel texts, with the network of people involved in cartographical innovations in German lands around 1500, and with the possibilities of GIS in reconstructing the impact of a medieval saint. |