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

该项目着眼于15世纪中叶至1650年间威斯特法利亚地区制图的开端，并着眼于其档案文件背景下的地区空间手绘表示，其中大多数是为特定的、主要是法律、行政或经济手段而创作的独特作品，以图像和经文元素的结合来表现空间和其他知识。该项目旨在研究这种新媒介发展的更大背景，这种新媒介最终将中世纪常用的用于空间描述的文字转变为图形表示。在空间区域表现的早期，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的和最近的新知识和技能。这就引出了一个基本的论点，即地图绘制者在接受技术、工艺和艺术的创新以在二维平面上表现三维现实的同时，在相当长的一段时间内继续使用中世纪的布局传统。这意味着早期的区域地图需要多维度地阅读——就像中世纪的世界地图和图表一样——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法利亚档案中选定的地图的帮助下进行研究，将地图和文件作为统一的整体进行研究。记录有关人员和他们的“网络”、地图的内容、目的和用途、制作和布局的程序，并研究地图和文件中图像和文字的重要性，应能使人们对威斯特法利亚区域制图的开端有一个总的印象。

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.