KartenRäume / Mapping Worlds
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Edited by:
Ingrid Baumgärtner
This series presents new interdisciplinary approaches to premodern cartography from an international perspective. It focuses on maps as cultural products: on the contexts of their production and their use, their significance in the visualization and ordering of knowledge, and in the constitution and appropriation of space. This series brings together monographs and the results of relevant conferences, and all volumes undergo double-blind peer review.
Editorial Board:
Herbert Karner, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Christoph Mauntel, University of Osnabrück
Nick Millea, Bodleian Library Oxford
Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London
Felicitas Schmieder, FU Hagen
Ute Schneider, University of Duisburg-Essen
Supplementary Materials
This volume explores the role of surveyors in the Oberharz as measuring and mapping experts in the field of Early Modern mining. Their tasks went beyond the surveying and visualization of underground and surface spaces, also encompassing technological advancements in water management systems and mechanical engineering. This study highlights their function as key agents of cultural exchange between European mining regions.
This volume addresses cartographic conceptions of Habsburg rule in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – when the expansion of Habsburg power developed a special dynamic and, in varying proximity to rule, different forms of charting it were tested. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume analyze the maps that were created in this period as hybrid orders of knowledge, and as visualizations, constructions, and appropriations of space.
Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological and thematic contexts. It asks how and why geography was represented here, explaining the influence that the contemporary practice of memorizing knowledge had on the conceptualization of representations of the world.
