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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description 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1602792025-05-23T05:50:30Z Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon Dreer, Cornelia 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 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. 2025-05-23T05:50:30Z 2025-05-23T05:50:30Z 2025-05-22T08:37:46Z 2025 book ONIX_20250521T121453_9783111367187_20 2941-377X https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102364 9783111367187 9783111326269 9783111367538 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160279 ger KartenRäume / Mapping Worlds open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102364/1/9783111367187.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter 10.1515/9783111367187 10.1515/9783111367187 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 761eb8a7-8d41-491d-97dc-e7f287738968 3dbe4cae-fa6c-4fba-82ec-02d89e0941b7 9783111367187 9783111326269 9783111367538 De Gruyter 418 Berlin/Boston [...] Universität Kassel University of Kassel 10.13039/501100012687 open access
spellingShingle 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
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Dreer, Cornelia
Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
title Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
title_full Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
title_fullStr Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
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title_short Weltkarten für Ranulph Higdens Polychronicon
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topic Higden, Ranulph
Polychronicon
Middle Ages
world maps
world chronicle
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Middle Ages
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