Circa 1492
Circa 1492

Author: Jean Michel Massing

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 0300051670

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Surveys the art of the Age of Exploration in Europe, the Far East, and the Americas

Maps and Colours
Maps and Colours

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 900446736X

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Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographical regions and periods. Connected by their focus on the (hand)colouring of the examined maps, the authors demonstrate the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical and political context in which they were made. Contributors are: Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde, Jörn Seemann, Tomasz Panecki, Chet Van Duzer, Marian Coman, Anne Christine Lien, Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadja Danilenko, Sang-hoon Jang, Anna Boroffka, Stephanie Zehnle, Haida Liang, Sotiria Kogou, Luke Butler, Elke Papelitzky, Richard Pegg, Lucia Pereira Pardo, Neil Johnston, Rose Mitchell, and Annaleigh Margey.

Studies in the Medieval Atlantic
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic

Author: B. Hudson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-04

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1137062398

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This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.

The Shaping of Africa
The Shaping of Africa

Author: Francesc Relaño

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1351761390

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This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously acquired cosmographical elements. Among the themes investigated are: How did the image of Africa evolve from the conception of a symbolic space to a Euclidean representation? How did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast? And once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absence of first-hand knowledge? Also, overall, in this whole process what was the interplay of myth and reality?