Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / / by Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines.

In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript , Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill/Hes and De Graaf,, [2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Description of Huntington HM 83
  • 2 The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth Century
  • 3 The Author
  • 4 The Geographical Sections
  • 5 The Treatise on the Apocalypse
  • Conclusions
  • Index.