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Geography is most obviously understood as the establishment of spatial order to make space comprehensible, navigable, and susceptible to representation. Such representation comes in various forms, such as maps, written descriptions, poems, paintings, and legal documents. This book explores the argument that the representation of space can only fully be understood by reference to elements of disorder and dislocation. Classical geography was filled with lacunae, contradictions, and uncertainties, but also had the capacity for dextrous play; the medieval reception of this unstable geography was thoughtful and creative. Geographies of dislocation are not only experienced historically but also given imaginative expression in artistic movements such as Borgesian fiction. While past spatial orders may be relegated to obscurity, they just as often linger--in archives, in memories, in ruins--to be retrieved and reanimated in surprising and revealing ways.

91 <09> "04/14" --- 91 <09> "04/14" Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- 91 <09> "04/14" Geography--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- Geography--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- Literature, Medieval --- Geography, Medieval --- Geography in literature --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Space in literature --- Maps in literature --- Topography in literature --- Geography --- Medieval geography --- History and criticism --- Maps --- 912 "04/14" --- 912 "04/14" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Middeleeuwen --- 912 "04/14" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Middeleeuwen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Middeleeuwen --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Middeleeuwen --- 551.64 --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Geography, Medieval - Europe - Maps --- Geodesy. Cartography --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599

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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

Cartography --- Maps --- Travel --- History --- Social aspects --- historical maps --- travel --- Medieval [European] --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 912 "04/14" --- 912 "15/17" --- 930.85:02 --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 912 "15/17" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Moderne Tijd --- 912 "15/17" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Moderne Tijd --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Moderne Tijd --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Moderne Tijd --- 912 "04/14" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Middeleeuwen --- 912 "04/14" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Middeleeuwen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Middeleeuwen --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Middeleeuwen --- E-books --- Cartography. --- Mapping. --- cartography. --- travel literature. --- Geodesy. Cartography --- History of Europe

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Until the entire world was mapped, terra incognita was not a metaphor. It existed and was acknowledged to exist. Yet the very acknowledgement of terra incognita raises a problem in the words themselves: without knowledge of it, how can land be represented? This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts, legal documents and travel narratives? 'Terra incognita' is the history of a non place, of lands conjured by the scientific imagination, which nevertheless drove exploration, and which continued to shape the world map, even as they slowly vanished from it.

Early maps. --- Cosmography --- World maps, Manuscript --- Geography, Medieval --- Cartes anciennes --- Cosmographie --- Cartes du monde manuscrites --- Géographie médiévale --- Early works to 1800. --- History --- Maps. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Histoire --- Cartes --- 912 "04/14" --- 912 "15" --- 912 <100> --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Middeleeuwen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Wereld. Internationaal. Alle landen gezamenlijk --- Géographie médiévale --- Early maps --- Manuscript maps --- Atlases, Historical --- Historical atlases --- Middle Ages --- Maps, Early --- Geography