The Global Image of a Non-Global World: The Image of the World in the Universal Cartography of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The article discusses the models of representing the creational geography in the universal cartography of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It presents the basic categories of world maps written in that period, as well as the most significant features and functions of the world shown on them. The author draws attention to the continuity between the respective categories of the maps and to the changes appearing in cartographic representations of geographical space at the turn of the Middle Ages and the modern times.
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