BIBLIOS

Document type
Book chapters


Title
Large-scale Cartography in Renaissance Germany: Legal and administrative manuscript maps as Sources for Cultural History

Participants in the publication
Thomas Horst (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CIUHCT

Summary
With these few selected examples of large-scale manuscript maps created during the southern German Renaissance, I hope to have shown that they are valuable documents of the spatial environment of the Holy Roman Empire and that they represent the landscape in different forms and perspectives. These maps served as functional instruments of adjudication in law courts and for administration, but today they can also be used as proxy data for climate and especially cultural and environmental history. However, this extensive map corpus needs to be digitized and studied in greater detail. Only then will it be possible to compare the maps individually on a national and international level.

Editor(s)
Juliette DUMASY-RABINEAU – Camille SERCHUK – Emmanuelle VAGNON


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Pour une Histoire des Cartes Locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance / Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Publication Identifiers

Address
Paris, France

Publisher
Le Passage Editions



Keywords
large-scale cartography legal and administrative maps