BIBLIOS

Tipo
Capítulo em Livro


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

Participantes na publicação
thomas horst (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CIUHCT

Resumo
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
Peter ETTEL – Achim Thomas HACK


Suporte
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

Identificadores da Publicação

Local
Mainz, Germany