The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance (2-Volume Set)

About this book

When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.

Cartography in the European Renaissance treats the period from 1450 to 1650, long considered the most important in the history of European mapping. This period witnessed a flowering in the production of maps comparable to that in the fields of literature and fine arts. Scientific advances, appropriations of classical mapping techniques, burgeoning trade routes-all such massive changes drove an explosion in the making and using of maps. While this volume presents detailed histories of mapping in such well-documented regions as Italy and Spain, it also breaks significant new ground by treating Renaissance Europe in its most expansive geographical sense, giving careful attention to often-neglected regions like Scandinavia, East-Central Europe, and Russia, and by providing innovative interpretive essays on the technological, scientific, cultural, and social aspects of cartography.

Lavishly illustrated with more than a thousand maps, many in colour, the two volumes of Cartography in the European Renaissance will be the unsurpassable standard in its field, both defining it and propelling it forward.

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Part 1
Preface, David Woodward
 
      Setting the Stage
 
1    Cartography and the Renaissance: Continuity and Change, David Woodward
2    The Role of Maps in Later Medieval Society: Twelfth to Fourteenth Century, Victoria Morse
 
      The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays
 
Maps and Renaissance Culture
3    Images of Renaissance Cosmography, 1450–1650, Denis E. Cosgrove
4    Renaissance Star Charts, Anna Friedman Herlihy
5    Lunar, Solar, and Planetary Representations to 1650, R. H. van Gent and A. Van Helden
6    Globes in Renaissance Europe, Elly Dekker
7    The Renaissance Chart Tradition in the Mediterranean, Corradino Astengo
8    Isolarii, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century, George Tolias
9    The Reception of Ptolemy’s Geography (End of the Fourteenth to Beginning of the Sixteenth Century), Patrick Gautier Dalché
10  Map Projections in the Renaissance, John P. Snyder
11  The European Religious Worldview and Its Influence on Mapping, Pauline Moffitt Watts
12  Early Modern Literature and Cartography: An Overview, Tom Conley
13  Literature and Mapping in Early Modern England, 1520–1688, Henry S. Turner
14  Cartography and Literature in Early Modern France, Nancy Bouzrara and Tom Conley
15  Literary Mapping in German-Speaking Europe, Franz Reitinger
16  Maps and Literature in Renaissance Italy, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
17  Mapping Maritime Triumph and the Enchantment of Empire: Portuguese Literature of the Renaissance, Neil Safier and Ilda Mendes dos Santos
18  Literature and Cartography in Early Modern Spain: Etymologies and Conjectures, Simone Pinet
 
Technical Production and Consumption
19  Land Surveys, Instruments, and Practitioners in the Renaissance, Uta Lindgren
20  Navigation Techniques and Practice in the Renaissance, Eric H. Ash
21  Signs on Printed Topographical Maps, ca. 1470–ca. 1640, Catherine Delano-Smith
22  Techniques of Map Engraving, Printing, and Coloring in the European Renaissance, David Woodward
23  Centers of Map Publishing in Europe, 1472–1600, Robert Karrow
24  Maps as Educational Tools in the Renaissance, Lesley B. Cormack
25  Maps in Renaissance Libraries and Collections, George Tolias
 
Maps and Their Uses in Renaissance Governance
26  Maps and the Early Modern State: Official Cartography, Richard L. Kagan and Benjamin Schmidt
27  Portraying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning, Hilary Ballon and David Friedman
28  Maps and Rural Land Management in Early Modern Europe, Roger J. P. Kain
29  Warfare and Cartography, ca. 1450 to ca. 1640, John Hale
30  Maps and Exploration in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
 
Italian States
31  The Italian Map Trade, 1480–1650, David Woodward
32  Cycles of Painted Maps in the Renaissance, Francesca Fiorani
33  Cartography in the Duchy of Savoy during the Renaissance, Paola Sereno
34 Cartographic Activities in the Republic of Genoa, Corsica, and Sardinia during the Renaissance, Massimo Quaini
35  State, Cartography, and Territory in Renaissance Veneto and Lombardy, Emanuela Casti
36  Cartography in the Central Italian States from 1480 to 1680, Leonardo Rombai
37  Cartography in the Kingdom of Naples during the Early Modern Period, Vladimiro Valerio
     
Portugal
38  Portuguese Cartography in the Renaissance, Maria Fernanda Alegria, Suzanne Daveau, João Carlos Garcia, Francesc Relaño
     
Spain
39  Spanish Peninsular Cartography, 1500–1700, David Buisseret
40  Spanish Nautical Cartography in the Renaissance, Alison Sandman
41  Spanish Colonial Cartography, 1450–1700, David Buisseret
 
Part 2
 
German Lands
42  Cartography in the German Lands, 1450–1650, Peter H. Meurer
 
Low Countries
43  Surveying and Official Mapping in the Low Countries, 1500–ca. 1670, Cornelis Koeman and Marco van Egmond
44  Commercial Cartography and Map Production in the Low Countries, 1500–ca. 1672, Cornelis Koeman, Günter Schilder, Marco van Egmond, and Peter van der Krogt
45  Maritime Cartography in the Low Countries during the Renaissance, Günter Schilder and Marco van Egmond
46  Mapping the Dutch World Overseas in the Seventeenth Century, Kees Zandvliet
     
France
47  Maps and Descriptions of the World in Sixteenth-Century France, Frank Lestringant and Monique Pelletier
48  National and Regional Mapping in France to About 1650, Monique Pelletier
49  French Cartography: The ingénieurs du roi, 1500–1650, David Buisseret
50  Representations of Territory by Painters, Engineers, and Land Surveyors in France during the Renaissance, Monique Pelletier
51  The Mapping of Samuel de Champlain, 1603–1635, Conrad E. Heidenreich
52  Marine Cartography and Navigation in Renaissance France, Sarah Toulouse
53  Publishing and the Map Trade in France, 1470–1670, Catherine Hofmann
     
British Isles
54  Mapmaking in England, ca. 1470–1650, Peter Barber
55  Colonial Cartography in a European Setting: The Case of Tudor Ireland, J. H. Andrews
56  The Kingdom of Scotland: Cartography in an Age of Confidence, Jeffrey Stone
57  The London Map Trade to 1640, Laurence Worms
58  Chartmaking in England and Its Context, 1500–1660, Sarah Tyacke
59  Colonial Cartography under the Tudor and Early Stuart Monarchies, ca. 1480–ca. 1640, Robert C. D. Baldwin
 
Scandinavia
60  Scandinavian Renaissance Cartography, William R. Mead
     
East-Central Europe
61  Renaissance Cartography in East-Central Europe, ca. 1450–1650, Zsolt Török
     
Russia
62  Russian Cartography to ca. 1700, L. A. Goldenberg
 
Editor and Authors
Bibliographical Index
General Index

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Biography

David Woodward (1942-2004) was the Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught for more than twenty years. Along with the late J. B. Harley, he was a founding editor of the History of Cartography Project. In 2002, the Royal Geographical Society honoured Woodward with the Murchison Award for his lifelong contribution to the study of the history of cartography.