Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography

Inventory, Texts, Translation, and Commentary

Leonid S Chekin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

498 Seiten

2006
Brepols N.V. (Verlag)
978-2-503-51472-7 (ISBN)

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Scythia and the islands in the ocean, the farthest northern and northeastern regions of the world known to ancient and medieval geographers, roughly correspond to modern-day Scandinavia, Russia, eastern Europe, and central Asia. Those areas figured prominently in cartography of the Middle Ages. The mythical island of Scandza, the land of the Amazons, the apocalyptic tribes of Gog and Magog, and other traditional symbols of chaos and barbarity existed side by side and often merged with new knowledge about people, cities, and states. The book, originally published in Russian as Kartografiia khristianskogo srednevekovia (Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 1999), offers an analysis of 198 Western European and Byzantine maps that date between the eighth and thirteenth centuries and contain information about the north and northeast of the inhabited world. The maps are divided into fifteen groups. Each group of maps is discussed in its separate chapter and all the relevant place names and other legends on the maps are transcribed and translated into English. Included in the book are comprehensive glossaries, which comprise the names of persons, places, ethnicities, and animals, and provide commentaries on the cartographic legends. The book features reproductions of individual maps and their details.

Reihe/Serie	Terrarvm Orbis ; 04
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Turnhout
Sprache	englisch; lateinisch
Maße	219 x 277 mm
Gewicht	1910 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	2-503-51472-3 / 2503514723
ISBN-13	978-2-503-51472-7 / 9782503514727
Zustand	Neuware