IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2324: Mappings, II: Representing Space, Time, and Geography: Medieval Mapping Solutions
Friday 9 July 2021, 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: | LauraLee Brott, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Paper 2324-a | Isidore of Seville and the T-O Diagram: A Union for over 800 Years (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 2324-b | The 'Genoese World Map' as an Example of the Transformation of Media?: Map-Making in the Middle of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 2324-c | The North Atlantic in Attempts to Accommodate New Information on 15th- and 16th-Century Ptolemaic Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History |
| Abstract | Medieval maps are concerned with geographical space and with time. They integrate world history into their representations of the earth and change over time by confronting different historical challenges. These challenges were met by different types of maps and mapping strategies, as examined by the speakers in this session: (a) a diagrammatic map that has survived changing times, (b) a 15th-century map situated between medieval and modern, and (c) the integration of newly found spaces into the mapping tradition. |