BIBLIOS

Document type
Book chapters


Title
Die Darstellung von Flüssen auf Karten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance: Ein Überblick

Participants in the publication
thomas horst (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CIUHCT

Summary
This contribution gives a compact overview of the cartographic representation of rivers in the Middle Ages and the\nRenaissance. In doing so, the depiction of watercourses on medieval world maps (Mappae mundi) and portolan charts\nis highlighted. Already in topographical surveys of the 14th century, rivers played a special role, as the illustrated manuscript\nby Bertrand Boysset (c. 1345 - c. 1416) documents. The Late Medieval hydrography can be found on the earliest\nregional maps and coordinate tables that were created within the framework of humanism in monasteries. Even more\nastonishing is that this topic remains a widely desideratum in map-history research. The hydrography is illustrated in\nparticular by the extensive representations of watercourses on early-modern legal maps that were compiled for administrative\npurposes, e. g. as illustrations in courts of law. Such manuscript maps might document former water routes,\nislands in rivers, the extent of a flood or regulatory procedures. They can thus be drawn upon as a valuable source not\nonly for historians, but also historical geographers and archaeologists.

Editor(s)
Peter ETTEL – Achim Thomas HACK


Where published
Flusstäler, Flussschifffahrt, Flusshäfen: Befunde aus Antike und Mittelalter. Internationale Tagung im Rahmen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 1630 »Häfen von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter« an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 21.–24. Februar 2018 (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Tagungen 39; Interdisziplinäre Forschungen zu den Häfen von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter in Europa

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Mainz, Germany