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Auteur(s) : Van Duzer, Chet (1966-....)
Titre(s) : Sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps [Texte imprimé] / Chet Van Duzer
Édition : [Nouvelle éd.]
Édition : Paperback edition
Publication : London : The British Library, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (143 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"From dragons and serpents to many-armed beasts that preyed on ships and sailors alike,
sea monsters have terrified mariners across all ages and cultures and have become
the subject of many tall tales from the sea. Accounts of these creatures have also
inspired cartographers and mapmakers, many of whom began decorating their maps with
them to indicate unexplored areas or areas about which little was known. Whether swimming
vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves
for our appreciation, the sea monsters that appear on medieval and Renaissance maps
are fascinating and visually engaging. Yet despite their appeal, these monsters have
never received the scholarly attention that they deserve. In Sea Monsters on Medieval
and Renaissance Maps, Chet Van Duzer analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters
on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe. Van Duzer begins with the earliest
mappaemundi on which these monsters appear in the tenth century and continues to the
end of the sixteenth century and, along the way, sheds important light on the sources,
influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. A beautifully
designed visual reference work, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps will
be important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration,
but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of Western conceptions
of the ocean."--Amazon.com
Sujet(s) : Cartes anciennes -- Histoire
Monstres marins -- Moyen âge
Monstres marins -- Renaissance
Cartographie -- Europe -- Histoire
Monstres marins -- Moyen âge
Monstres marins -- Renaissance
Indice(s) Dewey :
912 (23e éd.) = Cartes et plans de la surface de la Terre et des mondes extraterrestres ; 912.09 (23e éd.) = Cartes et plans de la surface de la Terre - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0712357718. - ISBN 9780712357715 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465756950
Notice n° :
FRBNF46575695
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Classical antecedents ; The earliest medieval maps with sea monsters: Beatus Mappaemundi
; "Let the waters bring forth abundantly": sea monsters in the creation ; Sea monsters
in the harbor of Brindisi ; An imagined mappamundi with sea monsters ; Sea monsters
on the ceiling ; Giant sea monsters on two small mappaemundi ; "A vast sea where
there is nothing but the abode of monsters" ; Two monumental mappaemundi with few
sea monsters ; Three sea monsters battling in the Atlantic ; Pictorial excursus:
the dangers of sea monsters ; Sea monsters on nautical charts: giant octopuses, sirens,
sharks ; How to buy a sea monster ; Whaling between myth and reality ; A nest of
sea monsters at the bottom of the world ; Whales as big as mountains ; Terrifying
monsters in the Indian Ocean ; A skeptic about sea monsters: Fra Mauro ; Pictorial
excursus: whimsical sea monsters ; Invented sea monsters in the circumfluent ocean
; The manuscript with the most sea monsters ; Sea monsters in printed editions of
Ptolemy ; The sea monsters of the earliest surviving terrestrial globe ; The sea
monsters of Waldseemuller's Map of 1507 and Schoner's globe of 1515 ; Lighting a
fire on a whale's back ; Pictorial excursus: the cartographic career of the walrus
; The debut of the sea monsters of the Renaissance ; Olaus Magnus and the most important
sea monsters of the sixteenth century ; Mercator's Globe of 1541: the influence of
Olaus Magnus ; The Ulpius Globe: sea monsters before their time ; The monster that
stops ships in their tracks ; Pictorial excursus: more whimsical sea monsters ;
From sea dragons to a sawfish: the Rylands Library Map of 1546 ; Evidence of a sea
monster specialist ; The curious career of the flying turtle ; The eclecticism of
Giacomo Gastaldi ; The sea monsters of Gerard Mercator's Great Map of 1569 ; Sea
monsters cavorting among the Mediterranean Isles ; The sea monsters surrounding Iceland
in the first atlas ; A haunting sea monster reappears ; Whales fantastic and realistic
at the end of the sixteenth century ; Two new world sea monsters ; Conclusion.
