A Book of Cities: Mapping Urban Space in Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572-1617)

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2020-0002

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Abstract The present article sets out to explore the tradition and the innovative forces involved in the production of the first city atlas, Civitates orbis terrarum, a six-volume collection of town images published by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg between 1572 and 1617. In doing so, it considers the consequences of the rediscovery of Ptolemy’s notions of geography and chorography and traces how time-honoured ideas and new practices of describing places meet in the depiction of early modern cities. The article discusses the potential of chorography as a genre capable of representing a city while trying to convey information about its character and addresses the role of printing in the dissemination of city views. The analysis extends from classic notions and modern practices of chorography to the humanist pursuit of a global vision that can be identified in the design of the Civitates, where the metaphor of the theatre appears to extend from the material of the atlas to the book itself. The research is mostly based on social and cultural histories of cartography and cosmography which can contribute to a better understanding of the complex significance of city images in Braun and Hogenberg’s project.

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城市之书:在布劳恩和霍根伯格的《奥比斯Terrarum》中绘制城市空间(1572-1617)

本文旨在探讨第一本城市地图集《城市轨道》(Civitates orbis terrarum)的制作过程中的传统和创新力量。《城市轨道》是由乔治·布劳恩(Georg Braun)和弗朗茨·霍根伯格(Franz Hogenberg)在1572年至1617年间出版的六卷本城镇图集。在此过程中，它考虑了托勒密的地理和地理概念的重新发现的后果，并追溯了历史悠久的思想和描述地方的新做法如何在早期现代城市的描述中相遇。本文讨论了地理学作为一种体体学的潜力，它能够表现一个城市，同时试图传达有关其特征的信息，并讨论了印刷在传播城市景观中的作用。分析从经典概念和现代地理实践延伸到人文主义对全球视野的追求，这可以在civitites的设计中识别出来，其中剧院的隐喻似乎从地图集的材料延伸到书本身。该研究主要基于地图学和宇宙学的社会和文化历史，这有助于更好地理解Braun和Hogenberg项目中城市图像的复杂意义。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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