Book ID: CBB150152518

Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia' (2017)

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In Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia', Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glorified the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and engendered the city book genre. Van Putten argues that Münster’s network of city view makers and contributors—from German princes and artists to Swiss woodcutters, draftsmen, and printers—expressed their local and national cultural identities in the views. The Cosmographia, and the city books it inspired, offer insights into the development of German and Swiss identity from 1550 to Switzerland’s independence from the empire in 1648.

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Review Tom Conley (2019) Review of "Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia'". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 214-214). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Meurer, Peter
Hessler, John W.
van Putten, Jasper Cornelis
Šolar, Renata
Zorn, Matija
Gašperič, Primož
Concepts
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Geography
Science and culture
Printing
Travel; exploration
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
Medieval
Places
Germany
Basel (Switzerland)
Americas
Europe
Australia
Baltic Sea
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