Mappings II: Text and Image and/on Medieval Maps
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Felicitas Schmieder
Organizer Affiliation
FernUniv. in Hagen
Presider Name
Dan Terkla
Presider Affiliation
Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Paper Title 1
Hyperspectral Image Analysis of the Gough Map of Britain
Presenter 1 Name
Di Bai
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rochester Institute of Technology
Paper Title 2
Mapping the Local World of Saint Augustine's Abbey: Thomas Elmham's Transformative Cartography
Presenter 2 Name
Beth Kaneko
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 3
The Kingdom of Sheba in the Far East: Suggestions from Maps and Travel Accounts
Presenter 3 Name
Irene Malfatto
Presenter 3 Affiliation
John Carter Brown Library
Start Date
11-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1145
Description
The extent to which medieval mapmakers used words and images to re-present their world varies from map to map and from one map type to another. There are verbal maps, schematic maps, maps that are primarily pictorial, and still others that provide viewers with complex word-and-image information hybrids. Speakers in this session will discuss ways in which various types of map might have been understood by their medieval viewers, what information they might have conveyed to those viewers, and how their words and/or images might have conveyed that information.
Daniel Terkla
Mappings II: Text and Image and/on Medieval Maps
Schneider 1145
The extent to which medieval mapmakers used words and images to re-present their world varies from map to map and from one map type to another. There are verbal maps, schematic maps, maps that are primarily pictorial, and still others that provide viewers with complex word-and-image information hybrids. Speakers in this session will discuss ways in which various types of map might have been understood by their medieval viewers, what information they might have conveyed to those viewers, and how their words and/or images might have conveyed that information.
Daniel Terkla