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The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience
(De Gruyter, 2021-06-08)
In this paper,we evaluate various medieval cartographic and diagrammatic representations of the Holy Land. The analysis focuses particularly on the religious dimensions of these representations and their potential for making pilgrimage accessible, creating religious symbolism and exciting spiritual emotions. The leading hypothesis is that medieval mapmakers introduced special technical features into maps and similar cartographic representations to deepen religious emotions and to stimulate intense sensory responses ...
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Dynamiken in der Kartographie um 1500
(De Gruyter, 2021)
Auf der Suche nach dem ‚richtigen‘ kartographischen Wissen prallten im 15. Jahrhundert recht gegensätzliche Vorstellungen aufeinander: Die praktischen Erfahrungen von Seeleuten standen gegen die Anschauungen der gelehrten Kosmographen, die neuen Entdeckungen des Christoph Kolumbus gegen die alten Vermessungen des Claudius Ptolemäus, mündlich vorgetragene Erklärungen gegen schriftlich tradierte Einsichten, die Erweiterungen des geographischen Weltbilds gegen allgemein bekannte Traditionen, lokale Verfahrensweisen gegen ...
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Von der Reise zur Karte und zurück
(De Gruyter, 2021)
This essay concentrates on the creative potential of mapping for the subsequent processing of travels, experiences, and descriptions as well as on the associated cultural techniques, such as copying, imitating, quoting, de-contextualizing, re-contextualizing, and transplantation. It focuses on the transformation from travel to map and from the map back to the space traveled. Based on examples in which travel knowledge and cartographic skills are intertwined, the essay illuminates the wide spectrum of possibilities ...