IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 349: Mappings, I: Maps in Communication with (Other) Texts
Monday 2 July 2018, 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: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Paper 349-a | Heart of Darkness: Antonio Fernandez's Exploration of the Southern African Interior in 1514 Revisited (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 349-b | Coastal Lines on Late Medieval Maps as Transitional Zones (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 349-c | Maps and Their Materiality: Revisiting the Two Mappaemundi of London, British Library Add MS 28681 (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Medieval maps are multimedia phenomena. They rely to varying degrees on visual and verbal signs in their topographical descriptions of unknown continents, specifically rendered coastlines, and at the interplay of drawn-and-painted maps and toponym lists. This session's case studies shed light on how little-known exploration records were used to draw maps of previously unknown territories, how the interplay of graphical and textual signs (e.g. coastal lines) works on medieval maps of all types, and how a fresh examination of adjacent mappaemundi in a 13th-century psalter reveals the need for redating their creation and re-assessing their codicological significance. |