Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography最新文献

{"title":"The Liber insularum archipelagi by Cristoforo Buondelmonti: Copyists as Co-Creators in the Isolarii Mapping Tradition","authors":"Beatrice Blümer","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"321 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination","authors":"Karen Wigen","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130553","url":null,"abstract":"puzzle about the Soviet military mapping programme during that time. It is unfortunate, however, that lists of signs and city plans are not included in the book, which would have been easy to add as supplementary data in the digital version or as a reference to a data repository. Researchers interested in that part of Davis’s work are therefore relegated to google their way to Davis’s original thesis, which fortunately is available online (https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/88z4v/ a-cartographic-analysis-of-soviet-military-city-plans). Yet, that minor detail does not overshadow the quality of the book as an important contribution to the growing body of research on the Soviet military mapping programme during the Cold War.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"318 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43287088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans","authors":"S. Svenningsen","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130552","url":null,"abstract":"—including the facsimile A to Z series produced in partnership with Harry Margary—such as the so-called Agas map, 1560, and John Rocque’s 1746 map. The present volume maintains the usual high production standards and encompasses a wide range of excellent articles, all carefully illustrated. The only one to address directly a single map or mapmaker is Malcolm Jones’s reappraisal of William Hole’s map of the Finsbury Fields’ archery marks now in the Bodleian Library. Jones shows that this hand-coloured printed map was likely to have been appended to the c.1594 guide book, the Ayme for Finsburie Archers, ‘with distances and scores and yards for every mark’. These timber or stone target posts were decorated to show sponsoring guild companies or alehouses or to commemorate local folk heroes like Long Meg, ‘the roaring girl’, whose ‘jest biography appeared in 1590’, and Martin’s Monkey, dedicated to Sir William Martyn, Lord Mayor of London in 1493, who kept a monkey. Crucially, Jones provides a close analysis of the names of all these marks and their histories, allowing a reappraisal of the not always accurate engraved copy in the London Metropolitan Archives. Historical maps and plans in one form or another appear in nearly all the articles in this volume. Elizabeth Hallam Smith’s piece on Westminster Palace deals with Robert Hulton and William Roades’s A Pocket Map of the Cities of London & Westminster (1743), with its record of all the landing-places on the Thames. Vanessa Harding’s essay on Browne’s Place on the waterfront east of Billingsgate makes great use of reconstructed maps in the British Historic Towns Atlas The City of London from Prehistoric Times to c. 1520. These and the Jones piece are a small sample from a group of important articles that will fascinate and inform the map historian as well as any student of London’s topographical history.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"317 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47304563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"London Topographical Record, Vol. XXXII","authors":"J. Montague","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130551","url":null,"abstract":"Spain in the atlases of the seventeenth century; fifth, the topographical surveys of Spain and its coasts in the eighteenth century based on a new network of scientific institutions created by the monarchy; and sixth, the geodetic works of the nineteenth century until the creation of the National Geographic Institute in 1870. The second volume is the catalogue, an excellent tool which in turn is divided into two long chapters. The first, devoted to the ‘Territories of the Monarchy of Spain’, contains the description of 274 records grouped on geographical and thematic axes: (1) maps of the Iberian Peninsula; (2) maps of Peninsular Spain; (3) territories of the monarchy of Spain in Europe (Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and Franche-Comté), North Africa, Spanish America and the Pacific (the Philippines and other archipelagos); and (4) historical maps of wars and battles. The first axis is arranged in two groups. In one, we have maps of ancient and modern Spain in the editions of Ptolemy’s Geography and Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. In the other, the reader finds maps of Spain printed in the leading European schools of map making—Flemish, Dutch, Italian, French, British, German and Spanish. The second chapter is dedicated to the ‘world represented in spheres, mappaemundi, atlas frontispieces, continents, countries, nautical charts and some islands of the world’. To facilitate the search for information, the catalogue is accompanied by an index of authors and institutions, an index of titles and main authors, and a subject-geographical index. In short, this book offers new cartographical materials, properly ordered and described, to both the specialist and the general public. The high-quality images were digitized by the Imprenta Nacional de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (National Printing Office of the State Agency Official State Gazette). Interested readers can access these images and their files online through the RAH Digital Library; in the near future, they will also be able to download the electronic version of this book free of charge through the Biblioteca Jurídica Digital (Digital Legal Library) of the State Agency Official State Gazette.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"316 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46629357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chronicle for 2021","authors":"T. Campbell","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130606","url":null,"abstract":"The information supplied by National Representatives has been supplemented from other sources. Chronicle considers information that is current or historical at its closing date; events after 2021 are not included.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":" 1","pages":"326 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41252520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Bucharest, Romania, 4–8 July 2022","authors":"Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130538","url":null,"abstract":"If there is a word to describe the organization (and celebration) of the 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography, held in Bucharest from 4 to 8 July 2022 and entitled ‘Conflict & Cartography’, it is challenging. The strange times we are living through, with a global corona-virus pandemic that necessitated the postponement of the celebration of ICHC from 2021 and a war in Ukraine that is deeply affecting neighbouring Romania, made this occasion a particularly difficult undertaking. Everysingleperson involved in theconference(organizations, speakers, partners, attendees, institutions) had to adapt to a new reality of great complexity, marked by the uncertainty of the times. Nevertheless, the admirable efforts and resilience of the organizing committee, formed by Cristina Toma (National Museum of Maps and Old Books, and ICHC 2022 Conference Director), Florentina Nitu̧ (University of Bucharest) and Marian Coman (University of Bucharest), among all the other people and institutions that made the conference possible, resulted in a deeply engaging event, full of exciting, innovative and transcultural approaches to the history of cartography. One of the main features of ICHC 2022 was its hybrid format, with about half of the participants attending (and contributing) online. Specifically, after a few last minute changes, 48 attendees participated in person, while 44 did it remotely. Concerning the poster session, most of the contributors presented their work online. This hybrid format has advantages and disadvantages. On one hand, the lower than usual in-person attendance allowed what Wouter Bracke, Chairman of Imago Mundi Ltd., called in the closing ceremony a smaller, less frustrating and less overwhelming event. Those attending on site were permitted a closer interaction among the participants and a more natural interchange of ideas, experiences and approaches, while interested scholars from all over the world were able to join the conference online and actively participate in it. On the other hand, remote attendance entailed the risk of technical problems that occasionally disrupted an otherwise relaxed celebration of the event. Unfortunately some talks had to be rescheduled, or even cancelled, owing to technical problems. Be that as it may, the herculean efforts of the conference staff to try to avoid those issues and to facilitate a comfortable, dynamic event, both from a human and a technical point of view, were both undeniable and admirable. Apart from the main theme, Conflict & Cartography, a clear connecting thread ran through the whole event, that of a transcultural approach to the history of cartography. In several of the fourteen panels included in the programme, we could see an interest in addressing different cultural traditions, sometimes interconnected in a dialogue of references, influences and methods of transmission. Thus, after the opening ceremony, held in the amphitheatre of the Romanian Academy Library, which in","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"294 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59457311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā by Kātib Çelebi","authors":"G. Casale","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"314 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46256641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires","authors":"Johanna Skurnik","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130544","url":null,"abstract":"(1748)’. She shows that Anson’s voyage, and his maps and publication about it, may be read in terms of national hegemony and political authority in a period of enlightened cosmopolitanism. At moments, in specific places, and in different ways, Enlightenment mapping was about competition more than collaboration. Yannan Ding’s focus in ‘A Late Enlightenment Enterprise: The British East India Company’s (EIC) Survey of the Paracels in 1808’ is with that group of islands in the South China Sea and the patronage networks that drove their survey. In the work of the EIC, the demands of trade and practical utility outweighed those of scientific accuracy. In his ‘Enlightened Mapping? Maps in the Europe of the Enlightenment’, Peter Barber discusses the sponsors of Enlightened mapping—‘the state, scientific academies, and the commercial map trade, all made more powerful by increasing prosperity and technological advances’—and examines the uses in public, political and private spheres to which maps were put. The papers are uniformly strong and thoughtfully illustrated. Collingridge and Parker demonstrate the links between map history and print history, whether in newspapers and periodicals or in the edition history of exploration narratives. Parker and Yannan Ding are particularly attentive to recent Enlightenment historiography, and the latter utilizes new archival material to demonstrate the important place of hydrographic mapping (marine charting) as a mode of Enlightenment cartography. Each paper is supported by a full bibliography; those of Edney and Pedley and Barber especially are of considerable length and utility. By illuminating inter alia questions of historiography, epistemology, patronage, audience and the connections between Enlightenment and exploration, map history and print history, map practice and politics, this is an excellent set of papers. The authors are to be commended. The editors are to be congratulated, in this collection and in convening TOSCA, for providing a means to continue conversations on the Enlightenment and on map history.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"312 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46876269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"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","authors":"S. Tyacke","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130603","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"320 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49573904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hors du monde. La carte et l’imaginaire/Fantastische Welten. Kartographie des Unbekannten","authors":"Martin Vailly","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2130545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130545","url":null,"abstract":"become enmeshed in ‘cartographic’ strategies that contribute to the making of what Thongchai Winichakul has famously termed ‘geo-bodies’. Laura Lo Presti’s analysis of the presence of the multi-sensorial cartographical representations of the Italian fascist empire in the everyday life of the 1930s and 1940s is unsurpassed. It includes the analyses of postcards, murals and mappings emerging from radio programmes, documentaries and films that all showcase how the Fascist regime trusted the power of repetitive mappings when ingraining Italian people with the image of the empire. In sum, the authors have created a sophisticated combination of stimulating discussions on the post-representational and processual approaches to the study of maps and in-depth empirical examples that effectively combine international-relations scholarship, map history and imperial history to interrogate the making of spaces. The chapters show how the processuality of maps reflects that of the empire: as Lobo-Guerrero suggests, empires have always been in the making. It is refreshing that the authors also highlight the moments when maps fail or are redundant. As Lo Presti summarizes in her chapter, these are the moments when ‘maps are useless, do not do their job, are impotent, or work differently than expected’. Consequently, it is important to scrutinize the unintentional ways that mappings have affected the politics of space as discussed by Goettlich as well as to acknowledge, as Strandsbjerg reminds us, that maps are not a necessary condition for the social and political organization of space. The inclusion of only six chapters is a clear benefit: there is ample space in each for the writers to present their analysis and develop their arguments. Regrettably for the reader the fine details of the maps studied are lost in the black-and-white reproductions and the small page size. Nevertheless, for someone interested in novel theoretical approaches to map history, this is a page turner. The volume will be of interest to map scholars as well as historians of empire and experts in international relations. Since the chapters are clearly written and effortlessly combine theoretical considerations with empirical analysis, they will make fine readings for graduate-level courses.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"313 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}