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Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon

Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological and thematic contexts. It asks how and why geography was represented here, e...

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Kaituhi matua: Dreer, Cornelia
Hōputu: Online
Reo:Tiamana
I whakaputaina: De Gruyter 2025
Ngā marau:
Higden, Ranulph
Polychronicon
Middle Ages
world maps
world chronicle
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography::NHTP1 Historical maps and atlases
Urunga tuihono:ONIX_20250521T121453_9783111367187_20
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Whakarāpopototanga:Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological and thematic contexts. It asks how and why geography was represented here, explaining the influence that the contemporary practice of memorizing knowledge had on the conceptualization of representations of the world.

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