num_pages: 144
description: Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance MapsThe sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps are one of their most visually engaging elements and yet they have never before been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography art and zoological illustration but also in the history of the geography of the marvelous and Western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources influences and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this wonderfully illustrated book the book author analyses the more important examples of sea monsters on maps produced in Europe beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century. The book will be the standard work on the subject for years to come.
language: English
title: Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
publisher: British Library