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4 juillet 2018
- handle: 10670/1.12b8s4
- isbn: 9781783743735
- eisbn: 9791036509681
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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communication history of communication information maps and atlases news circulation postal service Russian Empire signs and monuments History Communication HIS032000 HBJDSujets proches
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Valerie Kivelson, « 1. Early Mapping: The Tsardom in Manuscript », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.12b8s4
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In some ways, the maps produced in Russia from the mid-fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries fit uncomfortably in a volume devoted to the study of information and mechanisms of communication. To a modern viewer, or even to an educated European of the early modern period, the expected cartographic formulae are distinctly lacking, replaced by colourful drawings of little houses, churches, and trees. The maps’ visual vocabulary is more pictorial than graphic, their content more fanciful t...