IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 528: Mappings, I: Between Medieval and Early Modern
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Paper 528-a | South-East Africa, 1514 and Beyond: From a Special Scout's Know-How to a General Mapmaker's Knowledge (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 528-b | Imperial Diets as Places of Intensive Communication on 'Divers' Topics: Exchange of Cartographic Knowledge, Augsburg 1518 (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 528-c | Ortelius's Map of Ireland in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1573: Reviving Gerald of Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Abstract | Map historians have long understood the time around 1500 as one of epochal change, as even a sharp break, in cartographical methods ocassioned by the so-called 'Age of Exploration'. Speakers in this session strengthen the argument against misconception by showing how medieval knowledge was preserved and re-integrated into new mapping genres and contexts. |