Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance. Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Abstract

therefore, necessarily lose some precision. But the path of the journey is always clear. A genealogy of a genre is always a bit of an exercise of selection and projection onto the past: William Wey on his own terms could not belong to a genre that did not yet exist nor does Dym argue that mapmakers looked back explicitly to Wey. But the account of this genre is compelling and important. It adds to our formal and cultural understandings of a specific map genre and models a critical approach to studying the genres of maps and mapping.