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A Complex Relationship
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Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographical regions and periods. Connected by their focus on the (hand)colouring of the examined maps, the authors demonstrate the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical and political context in which they were made.

Contributors are: Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde, Jörn Seemann, Tomasz Panecki, Chet van Duzer, Marian Coman, Anne Christine Lien, Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadja Danilenko, Sang-hoon Jang, Anna Boroffka, Stephanie Zehnle, Haida Liang, Sotiria Kogou, Luke Butler, Elke Papelitzky, Richard Pegg, Lucia Pereira Pardo, Neil Johnston, Rose Mitchell, and Annaleigh Margey.
Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500 ̵c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
This book is about the creation, relocation, and reconstruction of libraries between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Confessionalization, that is, the era of religious division and struggle in Northern Europe following the Reformation and Counter–Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time different creeds clashed with each other, but it was also a period when the political and intellectual geography of Europe was redrawn. Centuries–old political, economic, and cultural networks fell apart and were replaced with new ones. Books and libraries were at the centre of these cultural, political, and religious transformations, frequently taken away as war booties and appropriated by their new owners in distant locations.
The protestant reformation was critical to the efflorescence of printing in England between 1547 and 1553. Celyn David Richards explores English print culture during this turbulent period, as an official programme of reform, new censorship dynamics and increasingly sophisticated commercial relationships contributed to the trade’s rapid expansion. Edward VI’s reign saw unprecedented levels of religious print production, London’s first publishing syndicate, and a climate of protestant ascendancy which helped English print culture to make up ground on its continental counterparts.
In a new approach to Goethe's “Faust I”, Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures but also their pliability and resilience whenever remediated.
This interdisciplinary investigation evidences the importance of print culture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in nations involved in competition and conflict. Retzsch's foundational set crucially engenders parody, and inspires the stage, literature, and three-dimensional objects, well beyond common perceptions of print culture's influence.

This study was facilitated by the Institut Universitaire de France / IUF. .
De gedrukte kaarten van waterschappen en polders tot 1870
Dit rijk geïllusteerde biedt voor het eerst een compleet overzicht van alle gedrukte polder- en waterschapskaarten tot 1870. Watermanagement in deze vorm,het droogmaken van meren en verkavelen van natte gronden, die vaak ook nog onder zeeniveau liggen, is al eeuwenlang iets typisch Nederlands. Verantwoordelijk daarvoor waren de waterschappen, die ervoor zorgen dat het land niet onder water komt te staan en daarom dijken en zeeweringen bewaken en verbeteren. Zij konden – en kunnen – hun werk niet doen zonder kaarten, waarop precies staat welke polders en welke waterlopen er in het gebied zijn. Ook waren kaarten onontbeerlijk voor het inpolderen van meren en plassen. Lang van tevoren werden plannen gemaakt voor zo’n inpoldering.Veel van die plannen zijn niet uitgevoerd. Overzichtskaarten van waterschappen werden niet alleen als gebruikskaart gemaakt, maar als representatie van het waterschap. Deze kaarten zijn vaak overdadig versierd en vrijwel altijd voorzien van de wapenschilden van de bestuurders, zoals de dijkgraaf en (hoog)heemraden.

Bijna 375 kaarten van waterschappen, polders en droogmakerijen – zowel niet uitgevoerde plannen als gerealiseerde polders – worden hier beschreven en geanalyseerd. Met meer dan 900 afbeeldingen worden alle kaarten in kleur, vaak met details die specifieke kenmerken laten zien. Deze cartobibliografie is deel 22 van de Explokart reeks onder leiding van de staf van het onderzoeksprogramma in de geschiedenis van de kartografie bij Allard Pierson aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
This is a peer-reviewed book series exploring and revitalizing the relationship between the history of mapping and the mapping of history. The series editors stimulate to explore the potential of maps for the study of the past, and accordingly the series aims at cross-fertilizing the history of cartography with disciplines such as history, landscape studies, geography, art history, digital humanities, urban planning and heritage studies. Volumes take the study of maps and mapmaking practices as a crucial starting point for understanding the evolutions, representations and imaginations of past societies, landscapes and territories. They may equally present the results of broader collaborative research projects or detailed case studies, insofar they have wider methodological and theoretical relevance. The series has no temporal or geographical limitations and both monographs and coherently presented edited volumes are welcomed.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals or full manuscripts to the series editors Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Iason Jongepier, or to the publisher at Brill, Alessandra Giliberto.

Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.
This series on the history of cartography is prepared under the direction of the Research Program Explokart, currently located at the University of Amsterdam.

The research program Explokart ("Exploration and accessibility of Dutch cartographic documents, 16th-20th century") is dedicated to making an inventory, description, and facsimiles of Dutch wall maps, topographical maps, sea charts, hydrographical maps, and globes. The aim of Explokart is to offer guidance to the users of old maps.

The research results of the volunteers of Explokart have resulted in the modern publication series Explokart Studies in the History of Cartography. It is aimed at both researchers and laymen with an interest in these matters.

For an overview of volumes 1-14 of the series, please click here.

This is a new series with an average of two volumes per year.