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Chet A. Van Duzer

    Duality and structure in the Iliad and Odyssey
    Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
    Seeungeheuer und Monsterfische
    • 2018

      Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)

      Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence

      • 228 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.

      Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
    • 2014

      Riesenkraken, Menschenfresser, Monsterschildkröten: Egal, ob sie Schiffe angreifen, in den Wellen herumtollen oder Seeleute verschlingen, diese Kreaturen sind ein Blickfang auf den Karten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Damals sahen die Seeleute in ihnen eine reale Bedrohung aus den unbekannten Tiefen der Weltmeere. Heute sind die mystischen Wesen nicht nur für die Geschichte der Kartographie von großer Bedeutung, sondern auch für die Entwicklung von Kunst und zoologischen Darstellungen interessant. Darüber hinaus geben die phantasievollen Illustrationen Einblicke in die Methoden und Quellen der damaligen Kartographen als ein Abbild der geographischen und biologischen Kenntnisse ihrer Zeit. Chet van Duzer interpretiert in diesem üppig bebilderten Band zum ersten Mal Seeungeheuer auf den wichtigsten europäischen Karten: von den ersten Mappae mundi aus dem 10. Jh. über die frühen Globen bis hin zu den Kartendarstellungen des 16. Jh. s wie Mercators Weltkarte von 1569.

      Seeungeheuer und Monsterfische
    • 1996

      Despite extensive studies on Homer's techniques of formulaic composition, thus far the importance of duality in the construction of the Iliad and Odyssey has gone unnoticed. This study demonstrates that duality pervades the epics, from dual magical devices that protect Homeric heroes, to the dual structures upon which the poems are built. By elucidating patterns in Homer's use of duality, the study develops new insights into the methods of Homeric composition, and powerful new tools for the interpretation of his work.

      Duality and structure in the Iliad and Odyssey