Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume XIII
5. Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World
6. Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages 1
7. Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts 23
8. Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps 73
9. Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices 95
10. Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land
11. Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden 131
12. Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces 189
13. Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land 221
14. Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power
15. Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration 263
16. Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases 289
17. Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 333
18. Index of Toponyms and Locations 363
19. Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples 373
20. Index of Modern Authors 379