Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Michelina Di Cesare, Studien zu Paulinus Venetus. De mapa mundi. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Studien und Texte, Bd. 58.) Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 2015. 186 S., € 35,-.

Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Werner Freitag / Michael Kißener / Christine Reinle u. a. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Landesgeschichte. Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2018. XII, 706 S., 43 Abb., € 99,95.

Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Patrick Gautier Dalché, L’espace géographique au Moyen Âge. (Micrologus’ Library, 57.) Firenze, SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo 2013. X, 464 S., € 88,-.

Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Erhard Brepohl, Theophilus Presbyter und das mittelalterliche Kunsthandwerk. Gesamtausgabe der Schrift ‚De diversis artibus‘ in einem Band, 2. Aufl. Köln/Weimar/Wien, Böhlau 2013. 511 S.

Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Marica Milanesi, Vincenzo Coronelli. Cosmographer (1650–1718). (Terrarum Orbis, 13.) Turnhout, Brepols Publishers 2016. 472 s., 44 farb. Abb., € 125,-.

Die hier reproduzierte Handschrift 4o Ms. Hist. 6 der Universitätsbibliothek Kassel – Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel überliefert einen formvollendeten Weltatlas des Jahres 1542. Sein Schöpfer Battista Agnese, ein aus Genua stammender Kartograph, betrieb eine leistungsfähige Werkstatt für Seekarten und Atlanten in Venedig. In den Jahren von etwa 1535 bis 1564 fertigte er aufwändige Pergamentkodizes in erheblicher Zahl.

Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Nathalie Bouloux, Anca Dan u. Georges Tolias (Hgg.), Orbis disciplinae. Hommages en l’honneur de Patrick Gautier Dalché. Turnhout, Brepols 2017. 841 S. mit 46 s/w- und 82 Farb-Abb.

This volume is an attempt to illuminate the way geographic space was described and visualized in premodern times and how significantly these depictions differed from region to region, from period to period, and from context to context. Various methods of mapmaking and different ways of putting travel experiences into words yielded different results. The history of travel and mapmaking does not reveal a continuous evolutionary progression, but, rather, results in the delineation of individual distinctionsand differences ...

The present essay is an attempt to show how and why winds and geographic entities, originally referred to as the parts of the earth and only later as continents, became important for the perception of the structure of the world. My starting point is Burchard of Mount Zion’s travel report ‘Descriptio terrae sanctae’, written between 1274 and 1285, which was based on these two concepts. Versions of that report, which circulated from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, were adorned with various illustrations. I ...