Institute for Medieval Studies
IMC 2022 Session
| Session | 534 |
| Title | Mappings, I: Mapping Medieval Cities |
| Date/Time | Tuesday 5 July 2022: 09.00-10.30 |
| Organiser | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität in Hagen |
| Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University | |
| Moderator/Chair | Evelien Timpener, Historisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| Paper 534-a | Mapping a Medieval City: Historische Topographie Nürnberg (Topo N) - A Real Estate Database for the City of Nürnberg (Language: English) Arnold Otto, Stadtarchiv, Nürnberg Index Terms: Architecture - General; Archives and Sources; Computing in Medieval Studies; Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 534-b | Baldemar of Petterweil: 'Mapping' Frankfurt, c. 1350 (Language: English) Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität in Hagen Index Terms: Architecture - General; Archives and Sources; Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | Papers in this session focus on mapping two of the most important late medieval German imperial towns. Paper -a sheds light on the digital research being done on Nürnberg's medieval manuscripts and buildings to understand the city's fortifications as well as what lay inside them. Paper -b focuses on Frankfurt am Main and the 14th-century cleric, Baldemar of Petterweil, whose systematic survey of the streets, lanes, and alleys of his town provides insights into how a medieval city map could be imagined. |