IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 634: Mappings, II: Material Borders of Maps
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| 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 634-a | Borders and the Spaces Between: Recovering Two Palimpsested Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 634-b | The Hereford Map: Bordering on 'Obscurity and Oblivion' (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 634-c | The Almond-Shaped Frame of the Genoese World Map: Between Ptolemaic Projection and God's Transcendence (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Papers in this session examine vastly different kinds of cartographical border areas. Paper -a explores a new and unique kind of border area, the nearly visible, palimpsested world of the Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine, as recovered by new, open-access, multispectral image processing. Paper -b chronicles the early stages of antiquarian reception of the Hereford Map, and thus its move from neglected and damaged marginal artifact to centralized graphical exemplar. Paper -c looks at the Genoese World Map's unusually formed frame to argue, against received wisdom, that its reference to Ptolemy's Geographia signals the map's accuracy, while simultaneously functioning as a border between the world of human experience and spiritual transcendence. |