Chorography between Mimesis and Metric: Handdrawn Regional Maps from Westfalia (1450-1650)

该项目旨在研究世纪中期至公元前2000年之间威斯特伐利亚地区地图学的开端。1650年，并着眼于在其档案文件的背景下，区域空间的手绘表示，大多是为特定的，主要是法律的，行政或经济手段，代表空间和其他知识的图片和经文元素的组合独特的作品。该项目旨在研究这种新媒介发展的大背景，这种新媒介最终改变了中世纪普遍使用的空间描述词汇，以图形表示。在空间区域表示的早期，它们在形式和布局上有很大的不同，这表明它们的制造者尝试了各种传统和最近的新知识和技能。这导致了一个基本论点，即地图制作者在选择技术，工艺和艺术的创新以在二维平面上表示三维现实的同时，继续使用中世纪的布局传统相当长一段时间。这意味着早期的区域地图应该被多维度地阅读--例如中世纪的世界地图和图表--因为它们包含了超越空间的更深层次的意义（例如时间元素）。发展的关键方面将在威斯特伐利亚档案中选择地图的帮助下进行研究，将地图和文件视为统一体，始终在上下文中进行检查。通过记录所涉人员及其“网络”、地图的内容、目的和用途、制作和布局程序以及确定图像和文字在地图和文件中的重要性，应能对威斯特伐利亚区域制图的开端有一个总体印象。

The project aims at the beginnings of regional cartography in Westfalia between mid-15th century and c. 1650, and looks at hand-drawn representations of regional spaces in their archival file context, mostly unique pieces created for specific, mostly legal, administrative or economic means, representing spatial and other knowledge in a combination of pictorial and scriptural elements. The project aims at working out the larger context of development of this new medium which in the end changed the in Middle Ages common use of words for spatial descriptions to graphic representations.In the early times of regional representations of space they were vastly different in forms and layouts, suggesting that their makers experimented with a variety of traditional and more recent new knowledge and skills. This leads to the basic thesis that mapmakers while picking up innovations of technology, craft and art for representing the three-dimensional reality at a two-dimensional plane -, continued to use medieval layout traditions for quite some time. This means that early regional maps are to be read multi-dimensionally - as are e.g medieval world maps and diagrams - because they contain further levels of meaning beyond the spatial (elements of time for example).Crucial aspects of the development will be studied with the help of selected maps from Westfalian archives, regarding map and file as unity which has always to be examined in context. Recording the persons involved and their "networks", contents, purposes and usages of maps, procedures concerning production and layout and working out the importance of image and text in maps and files should allow to get a general impression of the beginnings of regional cartography in Westfalia.