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Text, maps, and illustrations reveal the art, architecture, trade, agriculture, religion, geographical discoveries, and other aspects of the Renaissance period throughout Europe.
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
Text, maps, and illustrations reveal the art, architecture, trade, agriculture, religion, geographical discoveries, and other aspects of the Renaissance period throughout Europe.
Discusses the political developments in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries as well as the cultural changes of the period.
Summary: A highly readable account of the history and culture of the Renaissance from its origins in Italy to its spread through Europe and beyond.
In 1400 Europe was behind large parts of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. For instance, the people gf China and of Japan were considerably more advanced in this respect. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and use of cartography. The Mapmakers' Quest seeks to understand this development - not only to tease out the strands of thought and practice which led to the use of maps, but also to assess the ways in which such use affected European societies and economies. Taking as a starting point the question of why there were so few maps in Europe in 1400 and so many by 1650, the book explores the reasons for this and its implications for European history. It examines, inter al, how mapping and military technology advanced in tandem, how modern states' territories were mapped and borders drawn up, the role of maps in shaping the urban environment, and cartography's links to the new sciences.
This substantial volume is filled with over 140 maps and commentaries detailing the whole of the medieval period from the latter days of Rome through to the beginnings of the early modern world. Each map is designed to address particular themes and answers the needs of students of this period with supporting explanatory texts. The selection of maps takes a thorough and broad-ranging approach to the study of the Middle Ages. The maps chart a variety of areas including political events, military campaigns within Europe and in the Holy Lands, the power of the Church and the rise of monasticism, literacy and the advent of printing, art and architecture. Others cover the financing of state and war, the principal trading leagues and trade routes, settlements and the increase in urbanism, the founding of the earliest universities, pogroms and persecutions and events at the frontiers of Christendom.
This comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500--from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Sumptuously illustrated, it features period works of art, fascinating maps, quotes from medieval figures, close-ups of intriguing artifacts, and rich landscape photographs. For every century, a signature city is spotlighted to represent that era's developments, and time lines connect the many dramatic events that took place in these dark and exciting times.
This book argues that new groups and radically new concepts of group identity emerged throughout the world during the Renaissance.